Tutorial on .htpasswd and .htaccess with apache(httpd) in Linux

If there is a situation that have to dealt with like a public website but with some secret information.
How can we protect the information ? .

We can use .htpasswd and .htaccess in that time.

How  ? Lets see................

Open your terminal and type as

                        vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and find line no : 334 to 338. This is the area of httpd.conf that dealt with .htaccess

    334 # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    335 # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    336 #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    337 #
    338     AllowOverride AuthConfig
 

Now look at line no 338 , before modifying it will look like

                     AllowOverride None

You have to modify it to

                     AllowOverride AuthConfig

Now make sure that if you have some website and VirtualHost configuration of that website is successfully completed.