Password protect a directory using basic authentication - apache

Question

I'm trying to make a directory for my website password protected and I so far I've followed apache instructions to do that: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/auth.html
and
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PasswordBasicAuth
I then created a password file using htpasswd, and then I edited my httpd.conf with
<Directory /var/www/html/project/app.project.com/Admin/>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
# (Following line optional)
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "/var/www/html/admin/.password"
Require valid-user
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
But when I go to the website that supposed to ask me for the password it doesn't!
I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!

Answer 1

The problem that I didn't think was related to this is that I was trying to access that protected directory using one of my vhosts in the configuration file so I just had to put this Directory directive inside of the correspondig vhost that was getting accessed, this is how I got my configuration at the end:
# Please note as well that I'm forcing connections from http to https:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName app.project.com
ServerAlias project.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project/app.project.com
Redirect permanent / https://app.project.com
ErrorLog /var/www/html/project/app.project.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/project/app.project.com/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName app.project.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project/app.project.com
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/40d5d69ae6a53.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/project.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/ssl/gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt
#Adding the Directory directive to request auth access with password to the Admin directory
<Directory /var/www/html/project/app.project.com/Admin/>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
# (Following line optional)
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "/var/www/html/admin/.password"
Require valid-user
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>