Server 500 error when using .htaccess on xampp [Solved]

[dancingmongoose]

Xampp lite 1.7.7, running on windows 7

I have a site:

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xampp/htdocs/site/statssite/admin

and inside there I have what you would expect of a site, and index etc blah blah blah. I also have .htaccess and .htpassword files.

.htaccess file:

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AuthType Basic 
AuthName "Admin Only" 
AuthUserFile /site/StatsSite/admin/.htpasswd
require valid-user

.htpassword file:

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user:papAq5PwY/QQM

(in other words username is user, password is password, yes I will change it to something more secure once I actually get it working).

But whenever I log in, I get a page looking like this:


I have set the httpd.conf AllowOverride to 'ALL', but it still doesn't work.

Anybody help me?

[Altrea]

Contents of your \xampp\apache\logs\error.log?

[dancingmongoose]

Never mind, I figured out the problem, there was a typo in the AuthUserFile address, and also the password needed to not be encrypted for it to work. Thanks anyway