[Wolves] password protect a directory on my site

[Wayne Morris]

Baza wrote:

> 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

Have you edited your httpd.conf to show AllowOveride AuthConfig? similar 
to this

Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/admin">
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

This is a useful tutorial
http://www.linuxhelp.ca/guides/htaccess/