Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:13:30 -0500 From: "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: htaccess only protecting one specific subdir? Message-ID: <006501c05ed6$501a7f60$333d2426@siteplus.net>
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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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