Apache .htaccess not working

hello everyone, and thank you for your help. I'm new to your forum and I look forward to some good times.

I am a novice at apache and am trying to protect my directories. I could use one of those management programs, but that wouldn't be any fun, right?

anyway, I opted to go with .htaccess and have been reading up on it. I created my .htaccess file, and then my password file using htpasswd.

AuthName "Please Input Credentials"
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/testaccess/passwordfile
AuthType Basic
require user user1

Then, I changed the httpd.conf file to read the following, and I restarted the service using 'service httpd restart'

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>

this is a fresh install of apache on Fedora 17. The default index.html file will pop up on the web browser with no authentication.

Any thoughts? Thanks again!