Username and password set for RSS feed in WordPress not working

For creators using Seriously Simple Podcasting

If you add password protection to your podcast RSS feed, but when you input the username and password you still don’t gain access to the feed then the most likely issue is that your server has FastCGI installed. FastCGI removes the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW variables from the $_SERVER superglobal.

In order to work around this you will need to the following code to your site’s .htaccess file above all the WordPress rules that are already in there:

https://gist.github.com/TheCraigHewitt/339349014e82006f15bd7f884293125c

If you are unsure how to edit your site’s .htaccess file then please contact your hosting provider.

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