The parent directory (which I don’t have access to) uses htpasswd, but I can override this for my directory only by adding
Satisfy Any
to .htaccess. This fixes the issues I was having. I’m ok with disabling the authentication temporarily to run a scan and turning it back on afterwards.
More info on disabling htpasswd here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1431399/7220351
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