How do you remove a site password??

[simonsmithlive]

Hi, I have a weebly account and I made a mistake on it that I didn't know about till around last week - I accidentaly installed a site protection password. I tried to turn it off but don't know how to... can someone plz tell me how to get rid of it? No wonder I haven't had any views on my blog!!! Thanks  

Also if you dont have the password you cant look at the blog so nobody can see anything on it so please tell me how to fix this problem!!  

[Brodie]

Hi @simonsmithlive,

If you go to the Site Password area in settings, erase the password, save, then re-publish, your pages should all be visible. 

[simonsmithlive · Accepted solution]

Thanks Brodie, got it sorted

[Kaifi]

Hi mate,

I had similar problem and your solution worked. So thanks for that. However, when I try to put a status on facebook, the preview section is displaying "This area is password protected [401]". Even though the site is not password protected anymore.

Please help.

[Adam7]

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@Kaifi wrote:

Hi mate,

I had similar problem and your solution worked. So thanks for that. However, when I try to put a status on facebook, the preview section is displaying "This area is password protected [401]". Even though the site is not password protected anymore.

Please help.

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Hey @Kaifi - this should be fixed for you now.  Facebook had cached info about your site which I cleared with their debug tool.

[skannerup]

Hi Adam, 

When i Google for my website, the same problem as Kaifi appears for me. The site title is 

"This area is password protected [401]"

Is there any fix for that? Thank you!

[Queso]

Hello skannerup! That should be cleared as soon as the next round of indexing is complete. Did you have a password in place previously?

[skannerup]

Hi Queso, 

I did a lot of googling and found out about the automated way search engines update it and updated facebook's cache etc. I did previous have a password, but removed it. It's all good, just need to wait for the site to update on google's search engine 🙂

Thanks!

[t_inspire]

Thank you so much! This actually just helped me, I was having the same issue.