You need a .htpasswd file in that directory also.  You are using the
htpasswd command, so where is your .htpasswd file?  Find it, and move it
to /var/www/html/test

George



Anthony Hologounis wrote:
> 
> I have a RH7.2 box with apache 1.3.22.
> 
> /var/www/html is where the html docs live
> 
> /var/www/html/test is the directory I want to protect
> 
> I created a user file in my home directory   ~/user
> 
> I use htpasswd -c ~user someone to populate the access file
> 
> There is an .htaccess file in /var/www/html/test
> 
> it looks like this
> 
> AuthName "restricted stuff"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile ~/user
> 
> require valid-user
> 
> It quite simply does not work.
> 
> I read the docs here http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth and
> here http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-apache-FAQ/c135.html
> 
> I have tried this in the httpd.conf file
> 
> # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
> # override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
> # "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
> 
> ###AllowOverride None                        this didn't work
> ###AllowOverride AuthConfig               this didn't work either
> 
> and yes, I removed the hashes when I tested it.
> 
> I didn't think it would be this much of a pain.....aarrgh
> 
> Anthony
> 
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