Password protecting wordpress admin area causes redirect loop
Author: admin admin Reference Number: AA-00445 Views: 30226 Created: 2018-04-11 08:41 Last Updated: 2018-04-11 08:41 0 Rating/ Voters

Question : I enabled password protection for my wordpress admin area, now I can not login I see a 'redirect loop' eg

Firefox : The page isn’t redirecting properly

Chrome : ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Solution : Add the following to your site .htaccess file 

ErrorDocument 401 "401"


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