Just had an idea.. I changed my .htaccess to contain
AuthUserFile /home/xx/blog.willboyce.com/html/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Is Apache Processing .htaccess?”
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>
made .htpasswd and tried to access my blog… I was not asked for a password and there was nothing extra written to error.log… my guess would be apache is ignoring my .htaccess files? Any ideas why?