Hi, I'm trying to password protect one of my web accessable directories and I can't get .htaccess to work in a Centos 5.1 box Here's what I did I created an .htaccess file with the contents: AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user and I uploaded it to the dir I want to protect. Then I created my password outside of my web dir with the command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd pam then followed password prompts, created my password. So then I go to the site, and am not seeing any password required box, I can see site without a login. So then I figured it's not turned on in apache, and went to httpd.conf and changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig When I reload, apache will not reload. What am I doing wrong? _________________________________________________________________ Pack up or back up–use SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. Learn how. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_packup_042008