Protecting access to folders / files

[rv20]

know how to htacess and htpsword to protect folders,

 

AuthName "Restricted Area" 
AuthType Basic 
AuthUserFile /server/htdocs/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile /dev/null 
require valid-user

 

for exmaple.

 

If you have a directory in say /server/htdocs/mypage/

 

and you want to allow access to certain files in /mypage but you also have an htacess file in the root directory /server/htdocs,

 

then how do you do that???  confused!  ???

[dreamwest]

Upload another htacces to your directory

 

/server/htdocs/mypage/.htaccess

 

or if you dont want ppl sniffin your files

RewriteRule ^mypage/(.*) http://www.site.com