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Hi,
I am having trouble figuring out a way to have public directories inside of a password protected directory, without adding a .hiawatha file to each subdirectory. Is this possible?

In the interest of full disclosure, I am setting up an image hosting site, where I would like anyone with the public link of an image to be able to see that image as well as the folder its in. but not be able to see a list of all the folders without a proper password. Also, there will be a lot of folders created on the fly, so I would like to avoid manually adding a .hiawatha file to each subdirectory. So far I have the hiawatha.conf file set up as follows:

VirtualHost {
       Hostname = xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
       WebsiteRoot = /var/www/img
       StartFile = img.php
       AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/img/access.log
       ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/img/error.log
        ExecuteCGI = yes
        AccessList = allow all
        UseDirectory = img, img1a

Directory {
       DirectoryID = img1a
       Path = /img1a
       ShowIndex = yes
       PasswordFile = basic:/var/www/.password
        AccessList = pwd all
}

Directory {
       DirectoryID = img
       Path = /
       PasswordFile = basic:/var/www/.password
        AccessList = pwd all
}

I was hoping I could do something like this to allow public access to subdirectories, but it seems that (*) wildcard doesn't work:

Directory {
       DirectoryID = img1afolder
       Path = /img1a/*
       ShowIndex = yes
       AccessList = allow all
}

That's not possible. Subdirectories always enherit the access rights of the parent directory.