Technical
Bypassing Apache Basic Authentication

Some times in your apache’s setup you need to protect some resource but not another e.t.c. Following scenario describes a situation where you would basic protect all of the sites content except for one folder.

NOTE: this scenario does not work if you protect your site using <Location/> you need to protect <Directory>

<Directory "/some/path/to/protected/folder">
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Peek Authentication" 
    AuthUserFile /some/path/to/protected/folder/passwords.txt
    Require user getpeek
</Directory>

<Location /allowed >
    AllowOverride None
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any
</Location>

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