htpasswd password protect site

Question

I have member area and im try protect access to this url

http://site.com/wp/

with htaccess, all this working fine , here is code from my htaccess..

AuthName "My Site"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/site/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require valid-user

But in same directory http://site.com/wp/ i have another folder where is my video and some application http://site.com/wp/app/

Now when user try access to site must enter username and pass because is protected with htaccess and when try play some videos from folder http://site.com/wp/app/ must enter again user and pass ?

Why 2 times must enter same username and pass ? And any idea how to fix this

I think should be asked once about login information... ?

Answer 1

There are two possible causes I can think of:

• If Flash is used for playback, it might not include the basic auth headers when fetching video data.
• There might be a mismatch in the protocol ( http vs. https ) or the domain part of the URL where the user first authenticates and the URL the videos are located at.

Answer 2

That does seem strange. Are you perhaps adding or removing a "www." prefix somewhere?

But why are you using htpasswd anyway? If you want to add password protection to pages in a WordPress site, just change the visibility to "Password protected" in the "Publish" options part of the editor page.