On Wednesday 15 June 2011, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I know that the .htaccess file is getting read, because when I drop > garbage there I get a server error upon loading that page. So > somehow the AuthName directive in the .htaccess is getting > ignored. Why?? AllowOverride seems to allow it. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html#mergin <Location> always wins against .htaccess