I cant get .htaccess to work

I am runnning apache on SuSE 7.2 pro,

I have several Virtual hosts all working correctly - I want to password
protect one of the directories. but it doesnt want to work. I have added
into the httpd.conf as follows

<VirtualHost 212.19.66.163:80>
ServerAdmin someone
DocumentRoot /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/sites/mysite/
ServerName mysite.com
ErrorLog logs/error.log
CustomLog logs/access_log common

<Directory forsale>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>


and in the forsale directory I have the following .htaccess file

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Directory"
AuthUserFile .htpasswd
Require Valid-user


I have 2 users in the .htpasswd file and the Apache server is configured to
block requests for .ht* files

<snip>
AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by
# Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization
# information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment
# these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of
# .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above,
# be sure to make the corresponding changes here.
#
# Also, folks tend to use names such as .htpasswd for password
# files, so this will protect those as well.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Files>


Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

Mike.

"Michael Forster" <admin.RemoveThis@muckworld.com> wrote in message
news:3f26bae8$1@news.userve.net...
 > I am runnning apache on SuSE 7.2 pro,
 >
 > I have several Virtual hosts all working correctly - I want to password
 > protect one of the directories. but it doesnt want to work. I have added
 > into the httpd.conf as follows
 >
Ok I found a problem in the config - I had the htaccess stuff set to
allowoverride none -
changed to AuthConfig now it asks me for a user/pass

but will not let any of the users in the .htpasswd file in. I get the error
as follows

[Tue Jul 29 22:08:21 2003] [error] [client 10.69.70.202] emg: not a valid
FDN: /forsale
[Tue Jul 29 22:08:23 2003] [error] [client 10.69.70.202] emg: not a valid
FDN: /forsale


Can someone explain what I have still not got right?

Mike<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->