protected folder

[100asa]

By my cpanel I've created a folder to protect by .htaccess, so to store my private documents.
But zencart (I think the .htaccess on root) don't permit me to see this folder.
My .htaccess on root is this:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^libwww-perl*" block_bad_bots

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.65b1)*" block_bad_bots

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Yandex/1.01.001*" block_bad_bots

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^veoh*" block_bad_bots

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Java1.4.0_01*" block_bad_bots

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Java/1.4.1_04*" block_bad_bots

<Files *>

order allow,deny

Deny from env=block_bad_bots

allow from all

</Files>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^204.12.77.150 [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^46.21.144.176 [OR]    
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^74.201.150.111
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com/ [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?forum.100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?grandufficio.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?openx.100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?openx.100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?notizie.100asa.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?pagineprezzi.it/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?hosted.comm100.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?chatserver.comm100.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?hosted.comm100.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?chatserver.comm100.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?translate.google.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|swf|flv|png|pdf)$ /feed/ [R=302,L]  
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
 suPHP_ConfigPath /home/centoasa
 <Files php.ini>
   order allow,deny
   deny from all
 </Files>
</IfModule> 

and the .htaccess on protected folder "condivisione" is:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "condivisione"
AuthUserFile "/home/centoasa/.htpasswds/public_html/condivisione/passwd"
require valid-user 

When I try to recall www.100asa.it/condivisione, I've the zencart "page not found"

[Website Rob]

There a few different ways you can password protect and I always suggest the Hoster as the first person to discuss it with. They know their Server setup and how it applies to your Hosting account, better than anyone.

[infocom]

Did you get this to work? Its to do with this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

If you remove the last line above it works OK. Adding in a line to ignore the folder does not work.

So I think its a Zencart issue that is preventing password protection of folders working.