htaccess on windows

Alright, so I am having problems with this... not working. Ex.:

ErrorDocument 401 X:/rejection.html
AuthUserFile C:/auth/.htpass
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Development Members"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

I can still access the folders in which my .htaccess is in, like it is not effecting it. I have looked at the tutorials mentioned on Coding Forums, and I only see or hear about Unix paths, nothing about how to do Windows paths. The only experience I have with paths is in the http.conf file, and that format I don't think is working here. Help!

What type of server are you running? I thought htaccess only worked on apache servers.

I am runnning Apache, but on Windows. I am having a really hard time finding examples with Windows-like paths, like 'C:\web' etc. Only with ones like '/web/home' etc. So I am not really sure what my problem is, but I am almost sure I have to fix my paths.

Does anyone run Apache on Windows? It doesn't seem so when it comes to htaccess. But I am really anxious to tackle this problem, and I will surely document my results for anyone like myself.

Your ErrorDocument path should be relative to your doucment root (but starting with a /) eg. domain.com/dir/rejection.html would be /dir/rejection.html, not a physical server path.

You don't need the AuthGroupFile line.

The following path to the password file worked fine for me: C:/server/.htpasswd

Try:
ErrorDocument 401 /rejection.html

AuthUserFile C:/auth/.htpass
AuthName "Development Members"
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user

Nope, that didn't work. Sounds like I may have a different problem; do I need to do anything to the http.conf or anything else?

Between the <Directory> tags for your document root (or for the subdirectory if there's one for it), set AllowOverride to All if it isn't already.

That worked, much thanks! For anyone else who is looking to figure this out, it is in this are:
#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride All

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#

and not this area:

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# permissions.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.