Password Protected Pages In WordPress

  • Resolved rj2020

    (@rj2020)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Please assist with complete correct configuration settings for the LiteSpeed plugin with password-protected pages in WordPress.

    Love the product it’s really fantastic but I must be doing something wrong can someone please help?

    The first couple of times I enter the password on the front end the page content shows correctly as expected.

    Then suddenly when I try again at a later stage to enter the password and press submit nothing happens.

    Only after I purge the cache in the backend then it works correctly and shows the page content, then after a while, the problem starts again.

    Pretty sure it’s cache related but not sure what the correct configuration must be so that password-protected pages can function correctly on the frontend with the LiteSpeed plugin for WordPress sites.

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    I now added the following to the .htaccess file
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:YOUR_COOKIE_NAME]
    *******************

    Do not know if this was the correct fix? It does seem if this fixed the problem, however, the site seems to load very slow sometimes that makes me think it is not cached.

    ****** So, what I would like to achieve:
    – To properly cache the password-protected pages and the page content;
    – For the password-protected pages to function correctly so that when you enter the password the content displays immediately on the first correct password entry ******

    Anyone’s help will be greatly appreciated.

    Have a great day! Thanking you in advance for any help! ??

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    Did you actually put RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:YOUR_COOKIE_NAME] ?

    try change it to

    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:wp-postpass_186e16151a69841525d4ddc995dae72d]

    and purge all

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter rj2020

    (@rj2020)

    Hi,

    Thank you for your quick reply…

    ?? Yip, I actually put
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:YOUR_COOKIE_NAME]
    but I also think it was in completely the wrong place inside the .htaccess file.
    I guess you don’t know what you don’t know – now… I know thanks!

    So, I took it out and then added
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:wp-postpass_186e16151a69841525d4ddc995dae72d]
    as instructed.

    I use Cloudflare CDN so I turned on the Development Mode and then
    Purged all cache

    But then it completely breaks the site

    I also tried to removing
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Control:no-autoflush]
    and leaving only
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:wp-postpass_186e16151a69841525d4ddc995dae72d]

    But it also breaks the site

    I now removed
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:wp-postpass_186e16151a69841525d4ddc995dae72d]
    and only left the original
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Control:no-autoflush]
    now the site is not broken anymore but I am back to square one…

    Please help, I hope the above info explains everything correctly…

    Is there anything else I can try? or is there anything that I am doing wrong?

    Thanks ??

    Thread Starter rj2020

    (@rj2020)

    Maybe this will help here are links to some screen clippings of what I did and the result

    Screen clipping where I added the suggested RewriteRule to the .htaccess file
    Screen clipping of broken site after I added the suggested RewriteRule

    Thanks

    Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi

    Did you purge all ?

    try add that rule at top of htaccess , outside of LSCACHE marker

    also try disable CSS combine/minify and JS combine/minify , purge all , see how it goes

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter rj2020

    (@rj2020)

    Yes, I did clear the cache…nothing helped but then I realized that there was a syntax issue.

    I copied and pasted your original solution
    RewriteRule .* – [E=Cache-Vary:wp-postpass_186e16151a69841525d4ddc995dae72d]

    the dash after “RewriteRule .* –” was the issue? that caused the site to break?

    I noticed visually there was a difference in the length old”–” new”-”

    I replaced it and used your initial suggestion, the site did not break and I have not had an issue again thereafter with a password protected page – so up to now, I hope it stays the same but so far touch wood the password login seems to be functioning the way you would expect it to function.

    Thank you so much for your help! ??

    I will mark this issue as resolved

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