apache - How to stop sub directory inheriting parent's htaccess rules

Question

My main public_html directory has the following .htaccess rules:

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

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
</IfModule>

The problem is, I then have a subdirectory called source, and I want that directory to just list the files within it (because there is no index file). The problem is the above parent directory's htaccess rules are causing no files in source to be shown in the directory index (it just lists a blank index).

How can I solve this?

THANKS

Answer 1

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>