Hi,
I am creating a passwd on a directoy with the help of htpasswd. But its not working and does not prompt for passwd.The .htaccess I have created is a under.
------------------------.htaccess------------------------------------------
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
AuthName Admins
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>
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Then I use
#htpasswd -c /var/ww/html/.htpasswd atif

In this way passwd file is also created by still it does not ask for passwd and goes directly into the index.html.

Thanks in advance.
Atif

Maybe you need AllowOverride in your httpd.conf for that dir?

Simple quick .htaccess file that I know to work

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secure Pages"
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
require valid-user