How to disable effects of .htaccess within a subfolder if there is a .htaccess file in root?

In my application I have separate spaces for user and admin like if www.example.com is my website, then www.example.com/admin is my admin URL.

I am using a .htaccess file in my r开发者_开发知识库oot, and it affects some of the functionality in my admin folder, which I don't want to.

For example, consider below is my folder structure

..
.htaccess
index.php
admin

So if I don't want the .htaccess rules to apply within the admin folder, is there any way?

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For people that don't have direct access to httpd.conf (shared hosting for example), just put another .htaccess file in the subfolder and set to the desired behavior.

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You should be able to do this, but it does require write access to the httpd.conf configuration.

If you have access to the httpd.conf file, something like

    <Directory /admin>
      AllowOverride None
    </Directory

should do the trick.

Also, note that using .htaccess files in the root directory (as you said you did) is not a recommended approach. You'd be better off moving the contents of the htaccess file into the proper contexts of the httpd.conf file.

More information can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride