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Hello David,

Welcome to the forum.

Great detail on the problem; I'm not an Apache expert but I'll give this one a shot.

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- View your pssword file to make sure you have users. ( cat /var/www/passwords ) The format should be "username:password". The passwords will probably be encrypted and this is preferred.
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- View your group file to make sure your group is setup correctly. ( cat /var/www/groups ) The format here should be something like this all in one line, "GroupName: username#1 username#2 username#3 etc...". You specified this group in the http.conf file with line "Require group GroupName".
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- Make sure your Web Server can view these password and group files. This can be done like this: ( ls -al /var/www/passwords) and ( ls -al /var/www/groups ). You should keep the access to the files VERY minimal. A common setting, where "nobody" is the group of your web server, is something like "chown root:nobody path/to/password_files" and "chmod 640 /path/to/password_files".
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Hope it helps,
Jim