vvandens

@nuttyhiker

I had the same problem on my Apache 2.4 server.
You have to allow AuthConfig to be overridden in your site configuration for the IT sec .htaccess modified file to be valid.
My configuration looks like this :

<Directory /path/to/my/site>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride FileInfo Options Limit AuthConfig
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>

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