emacs .htaccess

in a VirtualHost you can add :

<Location />
AuthName "Safe Zone"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "/etc/apache2/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
</Location>

create a htpasswd file with a user and a password :
htpasswd -cb /home/xxx/site/.htpasswd username password
puis
htpasswd -b /home/xxx/site/.htpasswd username password