i need some help as im a little lost
i didnt worked with apache for a while ... and forgot most of its little secrets

i have put something like this in my httpd.conf file to protect all my web-based applications with user/pass
<Directory />
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secure BOX"
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative On
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,dc=testbox,dc=com"
Require valid-user
</Directory>

but now it seams that i have a few new location which i want to grand free access, and i would like to exclude for example the directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/public from the above authentication mechanism

is there some rules/if statement that i can put?

thanks for any help

am i in the wrong part of the forum with such a question?
or was i not clear enough about the question/problem?

i have put in the public directory a .htaccess file with this content
Order Allow,Deny
Satisfy Any
Allow from all

and in my httpd.conf file i have added some thing like

<Directory />
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secure BOX"
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative On
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,dc=testbox,dc=com"
Require valid-user
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

but when i try to access the public directory i will still be prompted for user/pass

some other ideas?

i found the solution to my problem ... by keep trying till it worked )
thanks for help

<Directory />
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secure BOX"
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative On
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,dc=testbox,dc=com"
Require valid-user
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/public>
Satisfy any
</Directory>