Using .htpasswd with ssi won't work

I've successfully added .htpasswd user/group authentication to a
directory on a server running Apache 1.3.9. My server side includes
work for all .html pages on my site except for those within the
passworded directory, where I receive error messages saying "an error
occurred while processing this directive." If I delete the .htaccess
file, the includes work. I added a line saying "Options Includes" to
my .htaccess file in the passworded directory, but that didn't work.

Here's what I have in my .htaccess file:
Options Includes
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Content"
AuthUserFile /home/.htaccessdir/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home/.htaccessdir/.htgroup
require group restrictedgroup

I'm successfully using virtual includes like this:
<!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="/includes/mainnavbar.html"-->
These includes work everywhere but in the protected directory, except
when I delete the .htaccess file.

My httpd.conf file includes the following pertinent lines:
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/www">
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get the includes to
work?

TIA,

Bob

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Bob Leach wrote:
> I've successfully added .htpasswd user/group authentication to a
> directory on a server running Apache 1.3.9. My server side includes
> work for all .html pages on my site except for those within the
> passworded directory, where I receive error messages saying "an error
> occurred while processing this directive." If I delete the .htaccess
> file, the includes work. I added a line saying "Options Includes" to
> my .htaccess file in the passworded directory, but that didn't work.
>
> Here's what I have in my .htaccess file:
> Options Includes
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Restricted Content"
> AuthUserFile /home/.htaccessdir/.htpasswd
> AuthGroupFile /home/.htaccessdir/.htgroup
> require group restrictedgroup
>
> I'm successfully using virtual includes like this:
> <!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="/includes/mainnavbar.html"-->
> These includes work everywhere but in the protected directory, except
> when I delete the .htaccess file.
>
> My httpd.conf file includes the following pertinent lines:
> AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
> AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride All
> </Directory>
> <Directory "/home/www">
> Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
> AllowOverride All
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get the includes to
> work?

Remove the included files from the password protected directory, OR move the
including files INTO the password protected directory.

The included files (sitewide page headers and footers) are not in or
below the password-protected directory. All pages on the website
include those files: the pages NOT in the password-protected directory
successfully include the headers and footers, while the pages within
the password-protected directory elicit the error messages and the
page headers and footers do not appear.

> Remove the included files from the password protected directory, OR move the
> including files INTO the password protected directory.