[Wolves] password protect a directory on my site

[Baza]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to password protect a directory in /var/www/passwordthisone

I've dropped this .htaccess file into passwordthisone

AuthUserFile /home/user/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Private Area"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

and i've set a password for user, but it still seems to let anyone in  
without asking for the password, what am I doing wrong?

Baza

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