仅在远程服务器上为PHP应用程序设置.htaccess规则？

Question

I have a rule in my app (in /.htaccess) that sets a htpassword for access to the site. We need this on the remote server, because we don't want anyone except us seeing it.

However, on the local server, I don't want to deal with the htpassword mess. Is there any way that I can make the rule valid only if the domain isn't "localhost", or something of a similar variety?

I'm using PHP as a backend language, so if there's a way I can solve it with PHP, that would be great.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Edit - The offending code:

authtype basic
authgroupfile /dev/null
authuserfile /path/to/htpassword
authname "Secure Area"
require user username

Answer 1

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/auth.html#satisfy

  AuthType Basic
  AuthName intranet
  AuthUserFile /www/passwd/users
  AuthGroupFile /www/passwd/groups
  Require group customers
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from internal.com
  Satisfy any