You sometimes need to password protect a folder or an entire account/website from direct access. That’s easily done with the appropriate .htaccess file in the protected folder plus the mandatory .htpasswd file with the correct user and password combination(s).
1 2 3 4 |
AuthName "Protected Area" Require valid-user AuthUserFile "../../.htpasswd" AuthType basic |
But what do you do when you want to enable direct access to a subfolder of the protected folder?
Unfortunately, this cannot be handled in the main .htaccess file, however there is a solution.
In the subfolder you wish to open access to, create a .htaccess file with the following content:
1 |
Satisfy any |
And that’s it.