Using .htaccess to make files public in password protected..

Right now I have a directory that has .htaccess:
DirectoryIndex index.php
AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Account"
AuthType Basic
require user fred
This password protects everything in that directory. However, I would like
to find a way to allow certain files to be not password protected. I don't
have access to httpd.conf so I'm stuck with these .htaccess files.

Here are some possibilities I came up with to identify the public files:
1) they must begin with "public"
2) they are in a subdirectory called "public"

#1 would work if I could figure out a regular expression that would get
everything EXCEPT filenames beginning with public. Something like
<Files ~ "\Apublic">
require user fred
</Files>
However, the \A from CPAN doesn't seem to work with .htaccess. Does anyone
have a reg ex that will do what I want?

#2 is a problem because .htaccess from the parent directory overrides
anything I do in subdirectories and I can't fix that in httpd.conf.

Is there a #3 I'm not seeing?

Thanks for your help.

--Mitchua

Mitchua <mitchuaNOSPAM.RemoveThis@hush.com> wrote:
 > to find a way to allow certain files to be not password protected.

Use the Satisfy directive in a <Directory > or <Location> block.
See the documentation about Satisfy.

Davide

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