How to remove .htaccess password protection from a subdirectory

.htaccess password-protection subdirectory
justinl picture justinl · Sep 16, 2009 · Viewed 89.6k times · Source

I have password protected my entire website using .htaccess but I would like to expose one of the sub directories so that it can be viewed without a password.

How can I disable htaccess password protection for a sub directory? Specifically what is the .htaccess syntax.

Here is my .htaccess file that is placed in the root of my ftp.

AuthName "Site Administratrion"
AuthUserFile /dir/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null

AuthName secure
AuthType Basic
require user username1
order allow,deny
allow from all

Answer

RageZ picture RageZ · Sep 16, 2009

You need to create a new .htaccess file in the required directory and include the Satisfy any directive in it like so, for up to Apache 2.3:

# allows any user to see this directory
Satisfy Any

The syntax changed in Apache 2.4, this has the same effect:

Require all granted

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