Remote Files and .htaccess

[Anon]

Hello
What seems to be a simple problem has led me to much head scratching, any help here would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to write a web template that will automatically include my header and footer pages when the main page is loaded. The site uses .htaccess for authentication.

I have tried include() readfile() fopen() without success, that is until I removed the .htaccess file -- then everything works great.

Does anyone know how to get around this or just a plain old better way to do it.

Thanks

[ace21]

Any file placed (picture, footers, html, etc) that is placed in a folder with .htaccess will prompt the user for a username and password before they are allowed to view it. Any files that you don't want under this protection should be placed in a different folder. This include subfolders. Hope this helps
Ace21