htaccess and aliases

freebsd, yes I have done a search for this already so please don't call me lazy . No seriously I trust you will be able to solve this in about 10 seconds, I just can't figure it out.

I am fairly new to Apache so bear with me. I have an alias from my domain named router which points to a folder outside the web root. I need to password protect it, so I stuck an .htaccess file in there, but for some reason it doesn't prompt for a username and password. I assume the problem is the fact that the alias points to a folder outside the web root. So I added this to my Virtual host conf for this domain. But it didn't do anything

Alias /router/ "/home/httpd/mrtg/"
<Directory "/home/httpd/mrtg/">
AllowOverride All
AccessFileName htaccess
</Directory>

Any ideas, on what I can do?

>> it doesn't prompt for a username and password

Because you must access it via http://www.yourdomain.com/router/, not http://www.yourdomain.com/router.

A quick fix for it is to:

AliasMatch ^/router/?$ "/home/httpd/mrtg/"
<Directory "/home/httpd/mrtg/">
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>

I tried accessing it as both /router and /router/ with the same result, the oly thing I didn't add to the <Directory> directive is Options All, I will try that tommorow, thanks

I threw this in the httpd.conf file

AliasMatch ^/router/?$ "/home/httpd/mrtg/"
<Directory "/home/httpd/mrtg/">
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>



But its still not recognizing the .htaccess file. Here is the .htaccess file

AuthType Basic
AuthName "xxx, inc. router stats"
AuthUserFile /home/pathtoasswordfile/.htpasswd
require user admin

You also need to put AccessFileName .htaccess in your httpd.conf. Also check and see if whether or not .htaccess is being read at all by placing a simple directive like Options -Indexes or something.

Okay I got it, thanks, My boss snuck in and added some crap to the httpd.conf file over the weekend and I was adding my stuff above his, well to make a long story short, I just neede to get the AllowOverride All in there, thanks freebsd!