I've got a .htaccess file in my root www directory, then another one in my www/included-files/ directory. Is there a way to tell the .htaccess in /www/included-files/ to disregard the root .htaccess file? Thanks!
no. just put overwrite the values of the parent htaccess into the subfolder one, i.e. using the opposite values. e.g. if your parent has "options -indexes" then put "options +indexes" into the subfolder htaccess, and so on. of course, it really depends on what you actually need.