Lockdown locks my entire site down

If your entire site is locked down (and you didn't want this) the problem is you are setting the foldername of lockdown to '/' which then locks down the entire site.

You want Lockdown to have it's own folder name and then put pages beneath it for locking.

to fix it

  1. Verify all lockdown pages in your RW project have their own unique folder names (and are not home pages)
  2. Go and delete any lockdown pages at your home page root (using a FTP program) -- It's possible they were put there at one point, then you fixed the problem but the page remained.
  3. If you still have problems with pages locked down enable the 'show invisible file' option in your ftp program and then go to the folders on the server that are locked down. Looke for a file called '.htaccess' and delete it.
  4. If you still have problems repeat step 3. Rememember you have to enable the 'show invisible file' options in the view menu of your favorite ftp program and then you have to go to the folders. Start at the top of your web page and drill down until you find .htaccess and then delete it.
  5. If you delete .htaccess and it works but then it locks down again it means you still have a lockdown page on your site -- Lockdown pages will try to re-lock so if you have a stray one left you need to find it and delete it.