Hi there, Assuming that the documentroot is ROOT and the domain is example.com. ROOT's hierarchy is: ROOT/handle/ ROOT/handle/handle.php ROOT/dir1/ ROOT/dir1/.htaccess ROOT/dir1/some1.txt ROOT/dir2/ ROOT/dir2/some2.txt ROOT/.htaccess .htaccess in ROOT contains: DirectorySlash Off RewriteEngine On RewriteRule (.*) /handle/handle.php?arg=$1 .htaccess in dir1 contains: RewriteEngine On handle.php: <?php print_r($_GET); ?> example.com/dir1 will lead to a forbidden page example.com/dir1/some1.txt will display the contents of some1.txt example.com/dir2 will display: Array([arg]=>dir2) example.com/dir2/some2.txt will display: Array([arg]=>dir2/some2.txt) The last two results are what I want, so how to remove the effect of .htaccess in subdir? (I'm using Apache httpd 2.2.20 on Windows) THANKS, MIZiper --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx