How to stop sub directory inheriting parent's htaccess rules

Question

My main public_html directory has the following .htaccess rules:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on

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Answer 1

This may be obvious and you've already tried it - but have you created an .htaccess file in the subfolder of interest? Any settings in this file will override equivalent settings in the root folder.

UPDATE:

For the root .htaccess file, instead of IndexIgnore */* ... try Options -Indexes

Then, in the subfolder's .htaccess file, place this single line: Options +Indexes

Does that achieve the desired effect?

Answer 2

Change your .htaccess with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# if request is not for the /sub-dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub-dir/ [NC]
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
</IfModule>