BUG!! wordpress overtaking password protected directories on my site

  • Hi!

    I need some help, real bad!

    For some reason, wordpress is overtaking password-protected directories on my site.

    The WP system is installed in root/wordpress, but the blog is set up in the root. In that root, I’ve got a bunch of folders and pages which have nothing to do with the blog – they’re not supposed to be powered by wordpress, I didn’t publish them via wordpress… they’re totally independent.

    YET, 2 of them, the password-protected ones, are being overtaken. Not overwritten, because if you go check the files via ftp, they’re still there; but when you try and access them in the browser, you get my WP template and “oh ho, something is missing” –

    how weird, right?

    Anybody’s got a fix? I don’t know what to do, it’s a big problem because these directories contain pages that need to continue functioning!

    Many thanks for your help…

    (PS: in case this matters, my permalink structure is category/post-name)

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  • give us the url to your site and the url to one of the pages that should be outside of wordpress.

    Thread Starter karlotta

    (@karlotta)

    Hi! Thanks for your reply!

    My site is at https://www.karlotta.com ; the WP installation is at https://www.karlotta.com/wordpress ; and a directory overtaken by WP is https://www.karlotta.com/uploads .

    I found a workaround, by creating subdomains, but it’s not a fix, just a temporary band-aid to have that upload page work. You can see it (the way it should be displayed in its original folder!) at https://upload.karlotta.com

    I called my web host and they said the problem is probably coming from the .htaccess files – which in these directories is obviously being taken over by WP. They tried a bunch of edits but nothing worked, so I created the subdomains.

    A real fix to this bug would be great, though, if anybody’s got any ideas?

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter karlotta

    (@karlotta)

    Mmmm what a total idiot, I forgot the “upload” subdomain directory was password protected, and I obviously can’t give that out here. If you want to see it, let me know, I’ll upload a no-password version!

    Sorry about that. I just woke up!

    Thread Starter karlotta

    (@karlotta)

    Nobody has a fix for this? It’s a serious bug!

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