Password Protection

Hi,

Sorry if its in the wrong place but it wont let me post in the right forum because it says mods can only post in the security forum.

Well heres my question.

I am wanting to protect 2 folders private1 & private2 which are located in my root folder.

/root/private1/.htaccess
/root/private2/.htaccess

What I want to know is can I put the .htaccess file in the root folder so I do not have to use 2 .htaccess folders to protect both folders?

/root/.htaccess

So it protects both folders private1 and private2

I tried using <DirectoryMatch> & <Directory> but they dont seem to work.

You could do it by setting an environment variable using rewriterule and rewritecond if /private1 or private2 are in the request_uri, but if I were you I would just do 2 .htaccess files, one in each folder.

You can only use Directory and DirectoryMatch in httpd.conf