At the moment I have an .htaccess that requires basic authentication to access files in that directory and all subdirectories. There are quite a few subdirectories. I would like to suspend the auth requirement for 1 specific subdirectory. How do I do this? I understand that I can override a .htaccess in a parent directory with a .htaccess in the subdirectory, but I don't understand how to override "AuthType Basic" i.e. "AuthType None" doesn't work. So there must be some way to use an .htaccess to override it, but how? or alternatively, in the parent directory it there a way to specifically exclude a specific subdirectory? My .htaccess looks very ordinary: AuthType Basic AuthName "By Invitation Only" AuthUserFile /path/to/password/file require valid-user I have spent some times looking over official documentation and searching but to no avail.