This is for Ubuntu 8.10 Server

I’m not sure if this is an “Ubuntu Gotcha’ ” or not, but adding htaccess and htpasswd protection to folders was slightly different than other distro’s I’ve used.

Most distros have you edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /etc/apache/httpd.conf and allow to appropriate folder access, like so:

<Directory "/www/">

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

This is NOT the file you edit with Ubuntu, you actually edit “/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default” and use your AllowOverride in there. After you set that restart Apache your htaccess and htpasswd files should be seen and used now.

Like I said, I may be off on this, but I think this is one of those “Ubuntuisims” and I couldn’t find much documentation out there on it.

Hopefully this can help someone one day.