Web Development & Stuff » Hosting http://web-development-blog.co.uk Some interesting findings from web-dev land... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Override Authtype in sub / child directory .htaccess file http://web-development-blog.co.uk/2009/03/23/override-authtype-in-sub-child-directory-htaccess-file/ http://web-development-blog.co.uk/2009/03/23/override-authtype-in-sub-child-directory-htaccess-file/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:18:02 +0000 admin http://web-development-blog.co.uk/?p=123 I had a whole site that was .htaccess password protected using Apache authentication:

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I wanted to allow public access to a sub directory. I had to Google it for quite a while and finally worked it out. I added this to the child directory .htaccess file:

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Satisfy any

The password prompt is now gone for that directory ;]

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