.htaccess question protect my php test environment

From: Frank Tudor (frank_tudor_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
To: php-general@lists.php.net

I have to apologies about this posting in advance so please
don't flame me too bad for being off topic.

Question:

I want to create an .htaccess file to protect my files

I did the passwrd -c /directory/file frank

the set a password and then confirmed the password

I created a .htaccess file with vi and put this in it.

  AuthName "restricted stuff"
  AuthType Basic
  AuthUserFile /var/password/frank

  require valid-user

then in the redhat http server utitily under server settings

I went tot he virtual directory section and created a new
virtual dir called virtual 0 and check marked the box at the
bottom for .htaccess protection.

I restart the server and then go to another computer and put in
the URL and no password box comes up.

:(

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