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apache, .htaccess in diffrent dirs..

Hello all,
I got this problem with my apache running on my gentoo server...=(

My document root is
/var/www/localhost/htdocs

and if I put in a .htaccess file that looks like this in
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/test/

Code:

/var/www/localhost/htdocs

AuthUserFile /var/www/localhost/.htpasswd

AuthGroupFile /dev/null

AuthName EnterPassword

AuthType Basic



require user smurf

and it works realy well.. I get an box that asks me

Then I have a lot of vhosts ... For instance one that goes to
/var/www/localhost/www.mydomain.com

my vhosts.conf has a line that looks like this:
DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/www.mydomain.com

I can browse that page without problem, yet when I put in the exactly same .htaccess file as abowe, i dont get to a responce that asks for username and password.. It seems to skip the .htaccess file

Does anyone now what I have done wrong?
Can anyone help me??=)

Regardz,
-- Rincewind

If you're on the same browser session that has authenticated for one user (for the same dir) then the browser will send the auth info without prompting.

Try testing on a new browser session.

I've already tried that...
Even tried it in a another browser...
So thats not the case..=(

Use the "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive inside your vhost definition as you do in your DocumentRoot

Hmm thanks...
But I get the following message after doing a

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

* Stopping apache2...
Syntax error on line 93 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here [ ok ]
* Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files:
Syntax error on line 93 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here

So..... How do I allow AllowOverride =)..

You have to put it inside the <Directory ...> </Directory> in your vhost definition, like this:

Code:

<VirtualHost *>

        ServerName mydomain.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/www.mydomain.com

        ...

        <Directory /var/www/localhost/www.mydomain.com>

            AllowOverride AuthConfig

        </Directory>

        ...

    </VirtualHost>