Hello, i cannot get a solution. One more try to get help from you. What i want is authenticate everybody who is accessing my website, but no authentication if URL starts with /public (by the way, the URLs are completely virtual and have no physical analogy): <Location ~ "^/"> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from .myhost.com AuthType Basic AuthName "Tell me..." AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/.htgroups Require group admins Satisfy Any </Location> <Location ~ "^/public"> Order deny,allow Allow from all Satisfy Any </Location> I've tried a lot of different combinations, but this one looks like the clearest to me. But it is not working at all :( Any suggestions? Thanks, Norman -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx