Topic: Basic Auth directory hidden

[bogus]

I have several directory and file links in an auto-indexed server root. I want one of the directories listed be viewable by the public but when someone clicks on the directory link to access the underlying data (aka other directories and/or files) I want these resources to be protected by an authentication mechanism. I hope this describes the situation precise enough to understand what I'm trying to do. To define authentication (auth_basic) for a directory is no issue but when I define a <Directory> directive and put the authentication directives inside, the directory I'd like to password protect but be public viewable disappears no matter how I define Require or similar directives.

See the following example:

[James Blond]

For files you can use FilesMatch

[bogus]

It's a directory and an underlying, huge directory structure with hundreds,
probably more than thousand of files I want to password protect.
Everything works fine except, that the directory 'testing' isn't visible when
browsing the auto-indexed root directory...

[tangent]

I believe your problem stems from the fact that, to be able to index them as a viewable public directory, the autoindex feature needs access to the very files you're trying to protect.

However, I think I've found a solution that builds on James' reply using FilesMatch, viz: