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From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>
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Subject:  htaccess only protecting one specific subdir?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:13:30 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net>
To: "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: htaccess only protecting one specific subdir?


> Gabriel Ambuehl dispersed into the ether
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm desperately seeking for a way to protect a directory via .htaccess
> > and basic authentication which normally is pretty easy, but I need the
> > .htaccess to reside one directory level higher in the tree and still
> > only protect the one subdir:
> >
> > /.htaccess    #should protect
> > /subdir       #but leave all other files/directory open
>
> I never actually had an occasion to this, but it seems to be easy stuff.
> The answer is in the Limit directive.   The .htaccess file in the main
> directory is overridden by placing another .htaccess in the subdirectory.
> Simply remove the GET form the Limit directive in the subdirectory
.htaccess
> file.  In fact I believe you could just put <Limit > by itself.  I will
> leave it up to you to experiment.
>
> AuthUserFile /usr/home/simpsons/.htpasswd
>     AuthGroupFile /dev/null
>     AuthName ByPassword
>     AuthType Basic
>     <Limit GET POST>
>     require valid-user
>     </Limit>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>




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