Apache2 require authentication for directory

Question

I'm trying to secure my phpmemcachedadmin installation. (It doesn't come with any sort of security, not even a login system)

I've added this to the .htaccess file:

AuthName "For admins only"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/phpmemcachedadmin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user myuser

But it doesn't work. Am I missing something here? The files are owned by www-data, so it can't be a permissions thing.

Answer 1

Do you have AllowOverride all in the vhost config for this directory? AFAIK this is required. I would also change the user to require valid-user