How to enable Apache DIGEST Authentivation everywhere on files and subdirectories

Question

I'm trying many different configurations following many tutorials and documentations, I can't get the authentication without creating thousands .htaccess files.

Here is my configuration :

<VirtualHost *:443>
 DocumentRoot /home/user/www
 ServerName preprod.user.com
 <Directory /home/user/www>
     Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
     AllowOverride All
     AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
     Require all granted
 </Directory>

 SSLEngine on
 SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/private/preprod.user.com.crt
 SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/preprod.user.com.key
</VirtualHost>

And at the root level, I wrote this /home/user/www/.htaccess file :

 AuthType DIGEST
 AuthName "preproduction"
 AuthDigestNonceLifetime 1
 AuthDigestDomain "/home/user/www/" "https://preprod.user.com/"
 AuthDigestProvider file
 AuthUserFile "/web/auth/.digest_pw"
 Require valid-user

The result is :

https://preprod.user.com/ asks for a password
https://preprod.user.com/v1/ asks for a password

BUT :

https://preprod.user.com/v1/index.php <strong>doesn't ask for password</strong>

Thank you all

Answer 1

I just found a solution :

The problem comes from the files : without telling the files the Authentication applies, it only applies on the directories and files keep served !

<Files *>
         AuthType DIGEST
         AuthName "preproduction"
         AuthDigestNonceLifetime 1
         AuthDigestDomain "https://preprod.user.com/"
         AuthDigestProvider file
         AuthUserFile "/web/auth/.digest_pw"
         Require valid-user
</Files>

Bye !