Protecting Drupal sub folders - Error 404 message

I've set up aMember folder protection for our Drupal site (we've bought the Drupal plugin).

The problem is, when you log on via the aMember login you can see the home page of the protected folder, but none of the content sitting in the sub-directories.

Set up is:

aMember located in: www.example.com/amember
Drupal located in: www.example.com/amember/files/drupal
The inaccessible content is located in sub directories off the drupal folder (e.g. www.example.com/amember/files/drupal/videos)

In aMember, I've protected the folder (www.example.com/amember/files/drupal/) by selecting the new_rewrite option.

In the www.example.com/amember/files/drupal folder there doesn't seem to be a .htaccess file to modify, and I get a forbidden error if I try to upload one.

The ISP's Web server is running Apache, I think.

What do I need to do?

.htaccess file has now appeared

I was composing an email to support and creating some screen grabs, when I noticed there is now a .htaccess file in the Drupal folder. I don't know why I couldn't see that file yesterday.

It contains (for consistency, I've amended the domain to example.com):

########### AMEMBER START #####################
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

## allow access for product #22
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} amember_nr=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)
RewriteCond /home/5471/ejpratt/www.example.com/public_html/amember/data/new_rewrite/%1-22 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L]

## allow access for product #21
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} amember_nr=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)
RewriteCond /home/5471/ejpratt/www.example.com/public_html/amember/data/new_rewrite/%1-21 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L]

## if user is not authorized, redirect to login page
# BrowserMatch "MSIE" force-no-vary
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/amember/plugins/protect/new_rewrite/login.php?v=-22,21&url=%{REQUEST_URI}?%{QUERY_STRING} [L,R]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/amember/plugins/protect/new_rewrite/login.php?v=-22,21&url=%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
########### AMEMBER FINISH ####################

I've added the code suggested in the "A-z (how To Protect Files And Folder)" thread, but I haven't been able to solve the problem.

##############################
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Only"
AuthUserFile /home/5471/ejpratt/www.example.com/public_html/amember/data/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home/5471/ejpratt/www.example.com/public_html/amember/data/.htgroup
Require group PRODUCT_22 PRODUCT_21
ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized"

##############################

I still cannot access the sub directories.

What am I doing wrong?

Still stuck

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Still trying

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.htgroup

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That worked, thank you

I've copied the content from the original .htaccess file and it worked!
I needed to copy it before the aMember code, as you suggested. It didn't work if the aMember code was at the top.