Submitted by admin on Wed, 2012-06-13 07:20
In a previous article here we explained how to regain access to your non-drupal created directories by editing the root .htaccess file. When i first came across this issue i thought i could just give access to the protected directory in the same way i did a non protected directory & it would then just prompt me for the username & password when i tries to access the directory that is protected.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2012-06-13 06:37
If you install drupal into your root directory and have directories that were created outside of drupal, when you try and access the non drupal directory such as something.com/somedir you will recieve a "The requested page "/something" could not be found." from drupal despite the fact that the directory somesite.com/something