/etc/apache2/sites-available/default
AllowOverride 
"AllowOverride None" 
to "AllowOverride All".


<Directory /var/www/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All  
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>



/# /usr/sbin/apache2ctl restart


home directory:

~# htpasswd -c .htpasswd anonymous



/var/www/protected# vi .htaccess

# .htaccess  
AuthUserFile /home/directory/.htpasswd
AuthName "Secure Area" 
AuthType Basic
require valid-user 




/var/www# vi .htaccess

# this is the .htaccess file
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +ShowForbidden





root@linuxbox:/var/www# ln -s /home/local_user /var/www
root@linuxbox:/var/www# htpasswd -c .htpasswd local_user
New password: 
Re-type new password: 
Adding password for user local_user
root@linuxbox:/var/www# vi .htaccess
# .htaccess  
AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd
AuthName "Secure Area" 
AuthType Basic
require valid-user 
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions +ShowForbidden




root@linuxbox:/var/www# ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 14 23:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jul  2  2014 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  167 Nov 14 23:22 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   23 Nov 14 23:25 .htpasswd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   14 Mar 24  2014 local_user -> /home/local_user