How do I protect my development site with .htaccess

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
The last 3 lines indicate a permission issue (could not open) for your .htpasswd file. Google "apache Could not open password file" for lots of info. There's just too many possibilities of things that can be wrong with your particular setup. Most of the time htpasswd needs 755 permissions and the "apache" user/group (or whatever user your webserver uses) needs to be able to access the file (that include all directories leading UP to the file, as well).