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I have Apache setup on Ubuntu 9.10 using apt-get,

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sudo /usr/sbin/apache2 \-version
Server version: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)

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Here is a simplified configuration of my setup. If you require more detail please look at my full article on Creating Online Shares.

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    ServerName www.krypton.com
    ServerAlias www.krypton.com

    DocumentRoot /home/www.krypton.com/www

    # This restrictive a precedence for ALL directory blocks.
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        # This prevents use of .htaccess
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

    # Main location of static content for the websites.
    <Directory /home/www.krypton.com/www/>
        Options +MultiViews
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    Alias /shared.private "/home/www.krypton.com/shared.private"
    <Directory /home/www.krypton.com/shared.private>
        # Allow website admin to use .htaccess - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html,
        #     AuthConfig - Authentication
        #     Indexes - Makes directory browseable

        # Specifically Indexes does NOT work and may be a bug with Ubuntu or Apache.
        AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes

        # This DOES allow Indexes to work but I want things to be more secure.
        #AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.krypton.com.error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg.
    LogLevel debug
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.krypton.com.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Here are the contents of /home/www.krypton.com/shared.private/.htaccess,

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# Enables directory listing BUT does not appear to work with AllowOverride Indexes
Options +Indexes

# Enable authentication, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Required"
AuthUserFile /home/www.tin.homeip.net/keys/tinpham-www.tin.homeip.net.shared.private
Require valid-user

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64.229.193.132 - - [17/Feb/2010:11:43:02 -0500] "GET /shared.private/ HTTP/1.1" 500 640 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0)"

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title	error log

[Wed Feb 17 11:43:02 2010] [alert] [client 64.229.193.132] /home/www.krypton.com/shared.private/.htaccess: Options not allowed here
[Wed Feb 17 11:43:02 2010] [debug] mod_deflate.c(615): [client 64.229.193.132] Zlib: Compressed 623 to 383 : URL /shared.private/

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I also used a simplified use case where the httpd.conf only contains,

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AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes

and the .htaccess only contains,

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Options +Indexes

And the result is the same error.

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