Drupal htaccess - ignore subdirectory - drupal

I have a drupal installation in my document root, and a different application stored in one of the subdirectories.
The application in the subdirectory seems to work fine until such time as I enable htpasswd for that subdirectory. Once I enable the htpasswd protection, then reloading the url brings up the standard Drupal error message:
Page not found
The requested page could not be found.
Is there a way for me to prevent this happening, or perhaps telling drupal's htaccess file to completely ignore this subdirectory?

Just after posting this, I found the answer at http://www.chipkin.com/articles/how-to-use-htaccess-on-subfolders-with-drupal

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You don't have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

I wanted to updated my Wordpress site, before updating I took backup for the entire website folder and so I installed an updated theme but later I decided to remove the update by deleting the whole website folder and put back the backup folder. after that I get this error
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
my site is Business Directory in Tanzania
I assume you sorted out your htaccess issue, as I can see your website loading.
But, as it stands now, a lot of your static assets (css and images) aren't loading.
Seems some type of an issue with your Amazon Cloudfront configuration - I'd clear the Amazon cache and see if that resolves it.
If not, turn it off, and try to debug
I checked the data base on myphpadmin and I found out it was deleted, so I created another one with same credentials like on wp-config, and now it works fine. Thanks much

Changing URL Wordpress- still not working despite checking/editing database

As much as may sound like a broken record - I changed the URLs on my WP site, and now I get a 404.
What I wanted to do:
Change site URL from www.SiteA.com to www.SiteB.com
All WP files were at the time in another directory in the same hosting account. I needed them in the root directory, accessible by www.SiteB.com
What I did:
Backed up locally and remotely - Database and files.
Edited URL's through dashboard on WP - got a login error afterward, but seemed to do it anyway.
Moed ALL old site files from root to backup folder.
Moed ALL wordpress files from original directory to root directory.
Then I got a 404 error and was unable to access WP-admin or login through the new or old URL.
What I tried to fix the issue:
Noticed http should be https - changed this in 'options' within phpmyadmin, both at 'siteurl' and in 'home'.
Still 404
Then I tried defining the db_name in the wp-config file.
Still 404
Then I gae up, changed the URL's back using myphpadmin, and moed the filed back to their original directory. Now I can login to WP as usual and eerything is fine.
Why can't I access the site when I moe it into the root directory - I thought I had all the steps right!
Thanks in adance for any help
oh..and apologies, my keyboard is missing a few keys :(
Wordpress stores url/permalinks on database field values as well, changing only the configuration files will not be enough.
I am pretty sure there are other options, on my case i use often perform Wordpress website migrations, and the following tool becomes really handy when search and replacing domains on the database records.
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Hope it helps.
Jose
This happened to be an SSL issue where the host for our SSL certificate was conflicting with the stylesheet somehow. 0_o

Editing .htaccess without FTP access through Wordpress

I have no access to my FTP but I'm able to edit the web through Wordpress. Is there any way I could perhaps generate the .htaccess file through the admin framework? I know there might be a plugin to do that, but bear in mind I have no FTP access and the plugins require it to be installed.
I need the .htaccess file to redirect the user to another site.
I know this might strike you as weird and stupid, but this is due to the company's central decision to keep the site hosted by, I guess, a "friendly" hosting company. There's no way of recovering the login/password for FTP, so this might be the only solution.
Please, try posting constructive comments only, no "contact the hosting company". If I could, I would.
If your hosting company has set up wordpress correctly, then there is no way to do this, because unix permissions should make .htaccess read-only to the owner of the web server.
If the company has not done this, and if you have a way to change the templates, you might have success by creating a template that contains php code to open and write the .htaccess file.
Sample code to be put at the top of the header.php:
echo 'Current dir: ',getcwd(),"<br>\n";
if ($handle=opendir('.')) {
while (($file=readdir($handle))!==false) {
$ok=(is_writable($file) ? "ok" : "can't write");
echo "file '$file': $ok<br>\n";
}
closedir($handle);
}
This is to test you're in the root directory of your wordpress installation. It should give you the current directory, a list of all files in that directory (expect .htaccess, index.php, and various wp-* files), and their writability.
Once you've checked everything is correct, add
file_put_contents('.test', "RewriteEngine On\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ site.com$1 [R=301,QSA,L]\n");
echo("<code><pre>-------- included file starts here\n");
include(".test");
echo("-------- included file ends here</pre></code>\n");
to the php code. This writes to a test file and includes it so you can check if everything is ok. When you've checked the file contents, replace .test with .htaccess.
WARNING: You should be VERY sure about the content of .htaccess. file_put_contents doesn't append the new string, it overwrites the whole file. Once you've written a bad .htaccess file, you might not be able to ever change it again, because the web server will redirect you to the new site instead of executing the script on the old site.
I am sorry for your situation. What is the hosting company (will keep this in mind if I ever use them). To try to help:
Do you have access to CPanel? Most hosting providers give it out of the box. Cpanel has a file manager.
Research Wordpress file managers (http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-filemanager/)
How to edit wordpress .htaccess file from hosting Cpanel: If you are currently unable to login in your wordpress dashboard, or facing 500 internal server error. There is 90% possibility that you were editing your .htaccess file from your wordpress dashboard. In this situation you can only fix your wordpress .htaccess file by editing it from cpanel. Editing .htaccess file from wordpress dashboard is little risky with .htaccess editor plugins. If you will implement any wrong code then you might face 500 internal server error and your site might crush. So first you should take a backup of your existing .htaccess file before editing it. If you have a backup of your wordpress .htaccess file then you can upload it through your hosting cpanel also.
https://howtoways.com/how-to-edit-wordpress-htaccess-file-from-hosting-cpanel/

WordPress using incorrect path for CSS in admin

My wordpress is installed in a blog subfolder on the root of my server. I've installed many WordPress before and I can't find why it is happening.
When I log in to the admin area, the CSS doesn't load. When I look at the source, I see it tries to load : http://contesk.dev/blog/wp-admin//wp-admin/load-styles.php?c=1&dir=ltr&load=admin-bar,buttons,media-views,wp-admin&ver=3.5.2
It of courses gets an error 404. /wp-admin/ is present twice in the url and I can find why and how to correct it. My blog url is properly set to http://contesk.dev/blog in the settings.
Tell me if you need more details, I'm not sure of what could be useful informations or not.
Thanks for your help.
Search for that double /wp-admin/ in the database with phpmyadmin and see if you can find it.
Also look in .htaccess for rewrite rules that might be causing that.
And reupload fresh copies of wp-admin and wp-includes; maybe some files were damaged in upload.

Clean URLs Broken after moving site to new host

I have copied an existing drupal 6 site to a new host. I thought it was an easy task. Just change the mysql login credentials and run. But obviously not. Fist page is up and runing, but all links to existing pages doesn't work.
What am I missing here? Another configuration I've missed.
The Drupal 6 installation is a NodeStream distibution.
Link to site:
http://u0002002.fsdata.se
It is likely that you forgot to set up mod_rewrite so the nice urls don't work.
It is almost certain mod_rewrite is not turned on you can access pages like this
http://u0002002.fsdata.se/?q=yrke-karriar
To resolve quickly:
Turn off clean urls (don't know the exact url in Drupal 6)
Flush all caches
This will resolve until you can get mod_rewrite turned on or working.
A very common (and even easier to fix) problem that happens when moving hosts is that you forget to include the .htaccess file which can cause problems with clean URLs too.
Fix: Upload a fresh copy of the .htaccess file that comes with Drupal to your web root directory.
I have found out that sometimes I miss this file. This is because I installed Drupal by dragging all the files and folders over to my server, but since the .htaccess file starts with a period, OS X hides it. This means that the .htaccess file was never moved over. - Source DrupalDude.com
And from Drupal.org directly, Clean URLs not working? Check your .htaccess file
Check if the .htaccess file was actually uploaded. It should be in the directory where you uploaded Drupal (for example: /public_html/drupal/)
If the .htaccess file is missing, you need to upload it. If you accidentally deleted this file, just download Drupal again, and copy the new .htaccess file.
Make sure the file is only called .htaccess and not htaccess.txt or anything else. The .period .at .the .beginning is required.
This name usually means that the file will be invisible on folder listings on Unix-based systems so you might not always see it. If using an FTP client, you may have to configure it to 'show hidden files'. If listing on the commandline, you must ls -la to see it. This will be somewhat dependent on your OS.
Here are two tutorials which may help you:
How to move a Drupal site from one host to another
How to Move a Drupal Site to a New Host Without Going Crazy

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