Forum Moderators: phranque
The root .htaccess file (if present) applies to all sub-directories, and any .htaccess in the sub-directories is generally used to override or add to rules already in place - but everything depends on the specifics.
Perhaps you could post a snippet of the code that is "not working" here, explaining what you expect it to do and what it actually does (i.e. how it fails). Change any domains in the code to "example.com" when posting here.
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