RPM rebuild of Apache - Access Problems

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions about this.

I rebuilt httpd-2.0.40-11.5 from the RPM source to change the content 
directory to /home/htdocs, so SUEXEC will work from there.  Anyways, had no 
problem rebuilding RPM, installing it and getting SUEXEC to work like I 
wanted.

The problem is that with the rebuilt Apache does not seem to be reading 
.htaccess and .htpasswd files correctly.  The LoadModule directive for both 
mod_auth and mod_access are uncommented.  And Apache is not displaying the 
.ht files through the browser, so it seems like mod_access is partially 
working.

I tried serveral tests.

.htaccess
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from all

The above .htaccess file after restarting Apache did not block access to the 
directory.

.htaccess
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from all
     Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

The above .htaccess file after restarting Apache did not block access to the 
directory.

.htaccess
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "By Invitation Only"
     AuthUserFile /home/htdocs/samplesite.com/.htpasswd
     Require valid-user

The above .htaccess file after restarting Apache did not make Apache ask for 
a userid and password before serving the page.

Did I miss something in the spec file when rebuilding Apache?

Any help would be appreciated.


On the desktop - MacOS X
In the server room - Linux
Windows? In the trash?

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