.htaccess prob for apache home web server

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I made a home web server and created an .htaccess file so the sit would be password protected, I have this:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "This is a private area, please log in"

AuthUserFile "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Secure Server Files\mypass.txt"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null

<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>


in the .htaccess file, and mypass.txt had the user and encrypted pass.

However it doesn;t work, soi though my pass thing was wrong but it wasn;t. When I tried to create custom 404 pages, and i put:

ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html

in .htaccess, it did not use the notfound.html file i had created.

What did i do wrong?

P.S. when saving htaccess, i told wordpad to save as all files and i typed in ".htaccess" as the name. this way it wouldn;t save it as a txt doc

P.P.S.

This is my whole .htaccess file:


AuthType Basic
AuthName "This is a private area, please log in"

AuthUserFile "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Secure Server Files\mypass.txt"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null

<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>

ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html



thx in advance