[HELP] How to allow certain folder

On my site, rsmaker.com I have a htaccess like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsmaker\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rsmaker.com/$1 [R=301]

order deny,allow


<Files ~ "\.(php|php.*|sphp|php3|php4|php5|phtml|cgi|pl|shtml|dhtml|html|htm|lst)$">
deny from all
</files>

<files index.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files stats.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files privacy.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files disclaimer.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files tos.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files faq.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files advertise.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files yshout.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files example.html>
allow from all
</files>

<files bar.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files 404.shtml>
allow from all
</files>

<files 403.shtml>
allow from all
</files>

<files upload.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files cron.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files js.php>
allow from all
</files>

<files ~ "^\.">
deny from all
</files>

ErrorDocument 400 /400.shtml
ErrorDocument 401 /401.shtml
ErrorDocument 403 /403.shtml
ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
ErrorDocument 500 /500.shtml
ErrorDocument 503 /503.shtml
Options All -Indexes

Code (markup):

I recently installed a forum on the site and now want to allow access to the forum but I don't know how to do it. So, everytime people want to do anything on the forum (www.rsmaker.com/forums), it will show no access.

So, how do I allow /forums/ access?

 

Umm why do u add this code ??

<Files ~ "\.(php|php.*|sphp|php3|php4|php5|phtml|cgi|pl|shtml|dhtml|html|htm|lst)$">
deny from all
</files>


Remove that and all that should go

 

That is the htaccess supplied by the script I use to prevent someone from phising the account in have in the script. I need only to exclude /forum/ from this rule .

 

I could've go with

<files ~ "\.php$">
allow from all
</files>

Code (markup):

buta that would be risky as it's exposed wide to hackers. So, the solution that I came up with was by installing forum in another subdomain account.

 

the alternative is to put another htaccess inside the forums/ folder and in put there:

<files *>allow from all</files>

Code (markup):

but in any case it's generally 'safer' to have the forum on another subdomain and probably more practical.