apache2: Require valid-user for everything except "special_page"

Solution 1:

this should do a trick:

<Location / >
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "whatever"
 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
 Require valid-user
 AllowOverride all                       
</Location>

<Location /yourspecial>
 allow from all
 Satisfy Any
</Location>

satisfy any is the cruicial one..