HTAccess and Apache

[Endoscient 0]

Trying to get .htaccess work on my own server. But keep getting an Internal Server Error (500). I changed the httpd.conf (and restart apache everytime I do). this is my

the (.htaccess)

AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd/passwords
require valid-user

/var/www/passwd/passwords file (change actual thing)

username:password

httpd.conf (poriton of it)

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think this is the right forum. If not please move.

[Mouton 0]

username:password

The password need to be generated in an encrypted form. This is not the plain text password.

htpasswd execute would allowd to generate such password.

[Endoscient 0]

its is encrypted one, just changed it here to show example.

[Endoscient 0]

I fixed. The problem if any one is wondering I just I had AllowOveride for / to none so it didn't allow anything to be overridden.