Question

How could I give different access to sub-directories?

I have access only to htaccess directives for once, not to the httpd.conf of Apache.
And here are my folders:

~/www/
~/beta/ -> group betatesters developers
~/dev/ -> group developers

I would like to have only one .htaccess located in the root directory.

~/.htaccess
~/htpassd
~/htgroup

.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Required"
AuthUserFile /home123/user321/htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home123/user321/htgroup
<FilesMatch "beta">
    Require group betatesters developers
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "dev">
    Require group developers
</FilesMatch>

Any idea?

Sometimes the .htaccess file needs its own modifications, whereby is fully included in GIT repositories.

/WWW/, /DEV/, /BETA/ are just different versions in repos. That why I think it’s unnatural to have a different htacces file in each folder. and it’s annoying!

Answer 1

I asked the same question on Serverfault.com. Follow the link to get it.

I should have done that from the beginning.