Perhaps I'm being imprecise: I know that subfolders in a folder with an
..htacess file inherit its directives. This is not the case with what
I'm talking about: here the folders in question exist on the same level
- one isn't inside the other, so:

root
|
__
| |
dev pub

....and the .htaccess file in 'dev' is prompting people accessing the
'pub' directory for a password. I don't think this is supposed to
happen, and I don't know why.

Anybody? Anybody...?

Jim Hayter wrote:
> mehatespam1085@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > This prompts anyone from outside our office IP for a password to access
> > the dev folder. Unfortunately, as it stands now, it also prompts anyone
> > who wants to access the pub folder for the same password (the pub and
> > dev folders are located on the same level in the server).
> >
> > I had this working before, but lost the original .htaccess file in a
> > migration. What am I doing wrong that this .htaccess is applying its
> > restrictions to other folders on the same level as it? I thought
> > ..htaccess restrictions were only supposed to apply to subfolders.
> >
> > Tx.
> >
>
> A quick search and I found this about .htaccess files: "A file,
> containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a
> particular document directory, and the directives apply to that
> directory, and all subdirectories thereof."
>
> You need to move your .htaccess file to the directory you want to
> controll access to.
>
> Jim