internal server error

[newbie101]

Ok- newbie here! Well, I finally got this installed after reading the posts to guide me. My problem is this: I was trying to password protect your /catalog/admin dir using .htaccess as I saw in the OSCdox guide. So I inserted:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Locked Area"
AuthUserFile /home/youraccount/.htpasswds/admin/passwd
require valid-user

But now when I go yoursite/catalog/admin is says this:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Contact the admin at blah, blah, blah!

I went back to my file manager (through my c-panel) and deleted what I insterted and I still get this error! Please help!

[jpf]

Did you modify the following line to match your server:

AuthUserFile /home/youraccount/.htpasswds/admin/passwd

And did you create a .htpasswds file?

There is several online sites that have a step by step on how to setup .htaccess to password protect a directory. Your CPanel may ALREADY have the ability to password protect directories (most do anyway) in your web site that may be much easier than manually creating the nessary files/entries.

[newbie101]

well, i tried too... at least I thought I did. so I tried to delete the files and start all over again. I used an FTP program and i couldn't delete all my files (like cataloge or admin), but I renamed them and tried to upload the catalog file. Now i get this error:

Warning: main(includes/functions/database.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/catalog/admin/includes/application_top.php on line 58

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/functions/database.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/catalog/admin/includes/application_top.php on line 58

I'm not a programmer and I thought I knew my way around html and design... but this whole thing has me pulling my hair out! I thought this thing was supposted to easy for us non-programmers!

[peteyg]

i dunno if this is going to help but this is my .htaccess file for my admin
# -FrontPage-

Options None

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
require group administrators
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthType Basic
AuthName www.oldcarclocks.com
AuthUserFile /home/virtual/site18/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/virtual/site18/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Also note the server im on we have frontpage extensions enabled