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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:45:24+00:00

So here’s what I’d like to do: access to http://example.com/ * would require the

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So here’s what I’d like to do:

access to http://example.com/* would require the user to enter a username/password, except when they go to a certain URIs (e.g. http://example.com/contact/ , http://example.com/blog/, etc.) they shouldn’t have to authenticate. http://example.com (the root) should be open, too.

I know I’ve got to set up some special .htaccess directives, but I don’t know exactly how to go about doing it. Does anyone know how I could accomplish this?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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  1. For the subdirectory, simply turn off basic authentication. It seems there is no direct way to do so (e.g. through a ‘require none’ directive), but you can say that you accept host-based access control, and that any host can access. The following works for me:

        <Location /foo>             AuthType Basic             AuthName Foo             AuthUserFile /tmp/passwd             require valid-user     </Location>     <Location /foo/bar>             Allow from all             Satisfy any     </Location>
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