Apache 2.4 changed the security configuration directives a bit. Here is an example using basic auth:
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<Directory"/path/to/your/wordpress">
AllowOverride All
Options+FollowSymLinks+ExecCGI-Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<RequireAll>
AuthType Basic
AuthName"Protected Resource"
AuthUserFile/path/to/your/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
</RequireAll>
</Directory>
What tripped me up for a while was that I still had the Require all granted directive inside the container, and that needed to be removed for the auth to work.
If you need to use wget to obtain the contents of a web page, but that page has either Basic or Digest Authentication enabled, use the following syntax to gain access: wget –http-user=yourUserNameHere –http-password=yourSecretPasswordHere http://example.org/desired/path/ ~or~ wget http://yourUserNameHere:yourSecretPasswordHere@yourSite.com/desired/path/
erics, August 25th, 2016 
Categories: How-To's, Technology 2.4, apache, Apache 2.4, Auth, Authentication, Basic, howto, htpasswd, mod_auth, Protect, require, security, tips
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