Why does my .htaccess suddenly not accept valid passwords?

Everything works about my .htaccess except the password keeps being
rejected -- even after I set a new password.
My httpd.conf was modified to contain "AllowOverride All" in the
first
occurrence of AllowOverride following:
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">.

My .htaccess contains:

order allow,deny
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.9
satisfy any
#
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user



$ apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix)
Server built: Sep 23 2007 18:07:19

$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.5.2
BuildVersion: 9C31

I do not recall this problem existing before my recent upgrade to
Leopard but that is probably not related since I had to modify /etc/
apache2/httpd.conf instead of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.

Thanks for any expert advice.

paintedjazz (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote in news:eaeec081-e6b9-4f16-a710-eb2d7b7d4818
@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Everything works about my .htaccess except the password keeps being
rejected -- even after I set a new password.
....
My .htaccess contains:

order allow,deny
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.9
satisfy any
#
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

Are you sure that the path to your .htpasswd is correct? If it isn't,
you'll be denied access regardless of what password you use.

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