A very useful and simple to use method of protecting access to a directory or an entire account or website is by using the .htpasswd method which is covered in another article. Sometimes though, you may want to protect a whole directory but exclude one or more sub-directories and this is also simple to do !
In the sub-directory that you want to exclude from the .htpasswd protection simple create a .htaccess file if one does not already exist and add the following line
Satisfy anyThis by-passes the protection for that directory
