Authentication when viewing Photo Gallery

[zacdurham]

Hello all,

I can't figure out why, when viewing a page with a photo gallery, I am
prompted for a username and password. I created the page in FP2003.
Without proper login credentials, the thumbs do not load.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[David Berry]

What's the URL? Is the gallery in a password protected sub web?

 

[zacdurham]

What's the URL? Is the gallery in a password protected sub web?

http://beaufortfoodandwine.com/restaurant.htm

 

[David Berry]

Have your web host check the permissions in the _private folder in your web

 

[Steve Easton]

It's because the photo gallery images are in the _private folder.

Move them to a standard folder and then recreate the photo gallery.
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[zacdurham]

It's because the photo gallery images are in the _private folder.

Move them to a standard folder and then recreate the photo gallery.
--

Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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Deleting the .htaccess file in /_private seems to have worked. Is this
agreeable?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

It depends what permissions the .htacess was setting. The _private directory
is special in that it is the only directory FP will create that is
write-enabled to make use of form bots that save their results to a file,
which will be placed into the _private directory.

You may want to check and see if you are using other components that make
use of the _private directory as you may have broken them. Placing the
images in there though may not be good as it goes against the purpose of the
private directory, which is used to store data gathered by various
components and not to have general-use items in there.

 

[zacdurham]

It depends what permissions the .htacess was setting. The _private directory
is special in that it is the only directory FP will create that is
write-enabled to make use of form bots that save their results to a file,
which will be placed into the _private directory.

You may want to check and see if you are using other components that make
use of the _private directory as you may have broken them. Placing the
images in there though may not be good as it goes against the purpose of the
private directory, which is used to store data gathered by various
components and not to have general-use items in there.

Thank you all for your input on this matter. It is nice to know there
are people out there willing to help the less experienced.