I ended up using mod_rewrite. Works wonderful. Thanks for the tip. -----Original Message----- From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua Slive Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:48 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] .htaccess help On 7/10/06, Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/9/06, Noel Stratton <nstratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Your stated solution was "Require user non-existent-user in the > > sub-directory .htaccess files" > > > > This will prompt the user for a username and password correct? I guess this would work, but I was hoping to have the forbidden page come up right away instead of the authorization required page come up after the user enters the wrong user name and password three times. If this my only solution I will do it, but I was hoping to find some way to override the root .htaccess file. > > Just add > ErrorDocument 401 > http://yoursite.example.com/path/to/denied/messages.html > to the .htaccess in the subdirectory. Ooops. No, actually, that won't work. You'll just need to live with the password prompt or do some more complex stuff with mod_rewrite. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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