Simple password protection in Apache 2.x

Just dropping this in here so I can find it again, I could never get .htaccess files to work in windows so this works in the same way

Use htpasswd -cb filename username password to create your hashed password file

put

<directory "some directory tree to protect">
   AllowOverride None
   Options None
   AuthType Basic 
   AuthUserFile "path to password file 
   AuthName "message for users" 
   require valid-user 
   Order deny, allow
</directory>