Silverstripe prompts for authentication

Question

we recently moved a website to another server and updated SilverStripe to the latest version.

Now(!), when trying to access the site, there is a username/password prompt:

I searched around a little and tried a few things. I don't know much about Apache/SilverStripe authentication. This is all the information I can give:

• We are using the latest WampServer
• The site's directory is ...\wamp\www\sitename and (for now) accessed like http:\\localhost\sitename\
• We have a bunch of other sites on the same web server (WordPress blogs), but the authentication issue occurs only on the SilverStripe site
• There are no authentication settings in the httpd.conf file or any of the .htaccess files in the site's directory
• It is possible to change the username/password required for the authentication with Security::setDefaultAdmin("username", "password")
• After authenticating, one's redirected to the start page (.../sitename/container/home/, I guess this is correct)
• The issue occurs only once on each client machine, when accessing the site for the first time. After that, one's redirected immediately every time

Answer 1

It sounds as though you have basic authentication turned on, probably triggered by your change in environment.

This will be set in your application somewhere - probably in _ss_environment.php or _config.php of your project.

API Docs for BasicAuth are here: http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-BasicAuth.html