.htaccess doesn't protect my folder

[paitoon]

Helle
I have problem about .htaccess in my site. My purpose is i want to protect a folder name's IMAGES in my site then i put .htaccess into that folder. But instead of the IMAGES folder will be protected but i could not open my site at all.seems like it not only protect the IMAGES folder but it protects to open my site also.
what should i do ? and what is the actually syntext to do this?
I use this systext;

AuthUserFile /share/isp/plusnet/www/uu/username/htdocs/directory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

thank you so much for the further help
Alex

[KevinADC]

Helle
I have problem about .htaccess in my site. My purpose is i want to protect a folder name's IMAGES in my site then i put .htaccess into that folder. But instead of the IMAGES folder will be protected but i could not open my site at all.seems like it not only protect the IMAGES folder but it protects to open my site also.
what should i do ? and what is the actually syntext to do this?
I use this systext;

AuthUserFile /share/isp/plusnet/www/uu/username/htdocs/directory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

thank you so much for the further help
Alex

You should ask server related questions in the appropriate server forum. This is also the type of question well suited to using a search engine to find tutorials:

google: htaccess+tutori al