.htaccess does not work

[testwreq wreq <testwreq@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, My goal is to password protect a few pages in one of the userdir (/home/users/vinda). And, I cannot get this to work. Any suggestions will be welcomed! Below is the configuration in my httpd.conf file:

<Directory /home/*/*/public_html>
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec
Options +ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
AddType text/html .html
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html
</Directory>

I placed .htaccess in (/home/users/vinda/public_html/labs) because this is the directory I want to protect.

Below are the contents of .htaccess and it has the .passwd file generated by htpasswd apache command.

AuthUserFile /www/home/users/vinda/labs/.htpasswd
AuthName "Members Only"
AuthType Basic
require user lab

When I call the page with http://hostname/~vinda/labs, I get the box to enter the username and password but then I can never pass this. The error in the eerror log is:

[debug] mod_auth_pgsql.c(774): [client 10.105.9.103] [mod_auth_pgsql.c] - missing configuration parameters
[Thu Sep 10 10:35:32 2009] [error] [client 10.105.9.103] access to /~vinda/labs failed, reason: verification of user id 'lab' not configured

Please advise. Am I missing any configuration?

 

Thanks much:)