[galaxy-user] Galaxy + Apache + External Authentication

Hello, I'm trying to setup galaxy to run with apache and external authentication - and I can't get this to work. (This is a not a galaxy question per se, more of an apache question, but hopefully you can still help me). First step was to setup apache/galaxy with mode rewrite - works perfectly. I've added these two lines to a 'conf' file in /etc/httpd/conf.d: ReWriteRule ^/galaxy$ /galaxy/ [R] RewriteRule ^/galaxy(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P] Browsing to http://myserver/galaxy indeed goes to galaxy and works ok. Then, I've tested a simple authentication directive (independent of galaxy): Alias /galaxy "/home/gordon/galaxy" <Directory /home/gordon/galaxy> AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Files" AuthUserFile /home/gordon/httpd_passwords Require user gordon </Directory> And this also works OK. Now I want to combine the two - but it doesn't work. My "ReWriteRule" are ignored when they are inside a <Directory> clause. I've also tried <Location> - same results. Any ideas ? Thanks, Gordon