the sample .htaccess file has tags in it and did 
not show up properly as a result... it should 
have looked like this.

A simple .htaccess file may look like this:

AuthUserFile /server_location_of/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic

{Limit GET}
require user USERNAME
{/Limit}

The {} should be less than greater than signs.

TTYL

Karen