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Originally Posted by prisfeo

yes,
but pay attention that after regular ispconfig3 installation,
if you look inside /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
you'll see this setting:
"AllowOverride None"

and only in /etc/httpd/conf/sites-available/www.yoursite.com.vhost apache config files there is:
"AllowOverride All"

that "enables" .htaccess "looking" by apache.
so that, check if your "/var/www/lockthisfolder"
is configured inside a httpd virtual host with that AllowOverride setting.

i mean the following:

<Directory /var/www/lockthisfolder>
AllowOverride All
.....
.....
</Directory>

prisfeo,

I'm not quite following...

Do you mean that the .htacess file inside /var/www/lockthisfolder should look like this?:

<Directory /var/www/lockthisfolder>
        AllowOverride All
        AuthType Digest
        AuthName "Private"
        AuthDigestFile /etc/apache2/lockbydigest/digest
        Require user myname
</Directory>

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