My god! When i set up Mint, i set it up in a protected folder.
When i realised that it need to be publicly available, i deleted and re-installed it in a non-protected directory.
Since then, although i managed to re-install it, i also got these nasty http auth requests. I began to make a post here but found that some changes to the DB fixed this.
So, at the moment, Mint is installed on a publicly accessible directory but somewhere within the installation it thinks it is on the old directory.
Where are the configurations pointing to the old directory so that i can change them?