Authentication required popup after database restore.

Weird error:

"A username and password are being requested by http://mysite.com. The site says: "User Backups" "

The popup is all over the site, every click it comes up and I need to dismiss it. Everyone gets it on entering the site. 

So what lead up to this was a domain name change. I tried to change the domain name, reset license key, edits header.inc.php and undo key in settings, save then go back. 

Admin page loads all weird, everytime I change the domain to the new one it seems to lose it's CSS. 

So I do a backup, and start all over. I go into the sql file and change all occurrences of old domain to new one. Restore and this weird popup. Restore original backup, same popup. 

It's annoying as heck and I cant seem to get rid of the popup. 

Have you cleared your cache since the move? It's possible that everyone is still used cached files from the /cache_public directory.

Try clearing the cache (except for the .htaccess) and see if that resolves it. You may also want to clear the /tmp directory as well.

Cleared all cache files. This new error is just plain weird. 

So just to make sure I understand correctly.. This happens even if the user is logged in or just as a visitor?

Everyone. Even as admin, navigating the admin panel after a DB restore. Regardless of being logged in or not,the box pops up. 

I even did an .htaccess search and didnt find a "user backup" id anywhere. 

I hate to keep asking questions but it will help when it comes to getting answers.

You said you decided to change 'domain names'. So I'm assuming you did something like changing www.mysite.com to www.mynewsite.com. Is that correct?

Also, do you have Shared hosting or running Dedicated/VPS? I am assuming that you have made all the necessary changes to add your 'new' domain to your hosting account? For example, adding the new domain as an 'add-on' domain within cPanel (if thats what you use), you copied over the existing site files to the new domain's directory, updated all the files needed to reflect the new domain/directory, updated the nameservers of the new domain to point to your host.

Just throwing some stuff out here, but may be helpful to know.

Both domains point to the same place. The original domain was a placeholder until such a time as a new name could be thought of and found. 

So in transitioning weird things started to happen.

• I'd unregister from the admin panel settings.
• Then unregister the key at boonex.
• edit and copy header.inc.php to new domain.
• go to newdomain.com/administration

That's when it all got weird. the CSS wouldnt load, so everything looked like 1990's html "home pages" without bad family photos. 

It'd still ask for new key, so I'd enter, it'd register with boonex fine. 

Then the admin panel loads all CSS free and garbled. 

Back to original domain in header, page loads just fine. 

So I do a full database dump. Take everything, the site, user info the works. 

Then, since I'm fond of overdoing everything: 

• Wipe out the directory. delete the database and FTP files from my local backup. 
• Run the install fresh. 
• Administration loads clean, register key as new domain. 
• Copy and Edit the sql backup, remove all traces of old domain and replace with new domain "F8" in textpad. 
• Go to database backup, restore from local file.... 
• Database restores half assed so. Module icons half load, and that "Authentication Required" popup box becomes a permanent page feature worse than the Real player nag screens. 

I've even tried reloading from the unedited SQL, going back to the original domain, nothing is working to get rid of naggy. 

Do you have any caching turned on in Dolphin? For example;

Admin Panel > Settings > Advanced Settings > Other

remove checkmarks (if checked) from

- Enable DB cache:

-Enable page blocks cache:

Admin Panel > Settings > Advanced Settings > Template

- Enable cache for HTML files

- Enable cache for CSS files:

- Enable cache for JS files

- Enable compression for JS/CSS files(cache should be enabled):

Once done, clear cache again and retry. Trying to make sure that absolutely nothing is cached.

I clear the cache all the time. Update users, clear cache, add module, clear cache, sneeze, clear cache... 

I fixed the issue by brute force. Unzipped the original, copied in my modifications (I keep updated files in their own dir, just in case) and wiped out all the server files. 

I looks like some .htaccess file somewhere was misbehaving.