Password protect a directory

I have been at this for hours and nothing seems to work. I have created a subfolder in my Web Directory (this is mac, so the directories are slightly different than linux):

/Library/WebServer/Documents/subfolder

that I would like to password protect.
I am using the stock apache installation that came with my mac (not server)

I edited httpd.conf and changed:
AllowOverride none
to
AllowOverride AuthConfig
(also tried AllowOverride all)

I did this in the
<Directory />
</Directory>
and
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
</Directory>
sections

Then I added this code below the last </Directory>

<Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/subfolder>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AuthName "Enter Password"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /Users/macuser/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user username
</Directory>

I created the .htpasswd file:
htpasswd -bc username password
and put it in my macuser homedir

restarted apache
sude apachectl restart

and tried it out
NOTHING

After a while playing around with this I deleted the
<Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/subfolder>
</Directory>
section restarted apache and created a .htaccess file in the /Library/WebServer/Documents/subfolder folder with the following contents

AuthUserFile /Users/macuser/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Access Name Here"
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Tried it out and again NOTHING

I tried several variations of the .htaccess file, including an online generator:
http://cooletips.de/htaccess/index.php
I also copied the .htpasswd file to the webserver directory itself, but that made no difference either.
But this thing is stubborn. It won't password protect my folder no matter what I try.

At this point I am desperately looking for any advise. I hope that someone here knows the answer.

 

Create .htaccess file with the following contents:

AuthName "Access Name Here"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /Users/macuser/.htpasswd
require valid-user