Hi, I am trying to shutdown a website to everyone except my ip address. I almost have it working. I cannot access www.mysite.com, but I can access all folders that have another .htaccess file in them.

I have a .htaccess file in /www with the following code:

#Use this when website is down
RewriteEngine on

#this allows access through my ip
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR}  !^(66\.777\.888\.99)$
RewriteRule  !down.php$ /down.php [L]

Some folders in my site have .htaccess files in them. If I have a file with the line:

RewriteEngine on

I can still access the folder. For example, if I have the second .htaccess file in /www/about, then I can still access mysite.com/about (but the .css file included on that page actually loads down.php).

If I delete "RewriteEngine on" I get redirected to down.php.

Any ideas? I think my mod_rewrite gets confused with multiple .htaccess files.

Thanks!