Hello, Edwin thank you for such a great component! I have gotten pretty far getting everything setup. my question which i could not find an answer for is this.

I know i need to lock down the master website (master.domain.com) however I have the slave sites sharing (symlink) the master. Now when i password protect the master site, When i go to a slave site, it's now prompting for the password.

my dir structure is this.

/public_html/master > Master Install Directory
/public_html/master/multisites/

and slave sites are as such

/public_html/master/multisites/slave1
/public_html/master/multisites/slave2

Do i need to create a share directory outside of master which then the slave sites are then linked to them via the templates? What do you recommend? or maybe I am just doing it completely wrong

Thanks.

How do you protect the master.
I don't see the relationship with the Symbolic Link.

If you are protecting the master with a password inside the ".htaccess" file and that you create slave site in a subdirectory of the "master" website, this is normal that the ".htaccess" file is used to access the subdirectories and therefore display a "linux" password prompt.

All depends if you want to create slave site with a URL that contain a subdirectory or if you are using a subdomain that can have its location beside the master directory.
In case of subdomain, see the tutorial video 0.b slide 21-24 that show the architecture and the suggested method to choose a directory path for domain, subdomain and subdirectories.

If you have another method to require a password, please mentioned it and give a detailled description.