.htaccess file do not work

[NormanW]

Dear members,

I've tried to protect my Zabbix Web page with an Login before the Zabbix login web page is coming up, with a .htaccess file in the directory: /usr/share/zabbix (where the index.php is)

the content of that .htaccess is:
cat .htaccess
# .htaccess-Datei für Passwortschutz
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Geschützter Bereich - Bitte geben Sie ein Passwort ein!"
AuthUserFile /opt/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

However, it seems that .htaccess will not be recognized.

Therefore I've changed the /etc/zabbix/apache.conf file: (as well in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/zabbix.conf)

<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride Options <= changed None to Options, however also ALL didn't work
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

I use apache2 2.4.57-2

My system:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
Kernel: 6.5.0-0.deb12.1-amd64
Shell: zsh 5.9
Memory: 3587MiB / 7844MiB
GPU Driver: i915
CPU Usage: 43%
Disk (/): 213G / 915G (25%)

The reason is: I have several web servers subdirectories, and just one IP. So I would like to protect the access to each of the other subdirectories.
That .htaccess works fine for the pihole /admin subdiretory

is there any area where I have not looked?

Thank you all in advanced.

Norman

[solution]

remove the .htaccess and try this:
apache/conf-enable/zabbix.conf

<Directory "/usr/share/zabbix">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Access"
AuthUserFile /opt/.filename
Require valid-user

Restart Apache


Wellington

[NormanW]

Brilliant. Your solution works fine. I was not sure if this works in the zabbix.conf file directly.

Many Thanks.