Added security, now can't login!

Wanting to increase the security of the install (which is on the public net) I wanted to add a password for anyone hitting the initial menu.

I added this via htpasswd and for some reason it didn’t work (more likely my lack of knowledge!).

Anyway, I removed the top level htaccess/htpasswd and noe cannot loging to Freepbx.

If I change amportal.conf to ‘AUTHTYPE=none’ I can, but, of course, I lose security on freepbx.

Whilst searching, i thought I did find something explaining the issue, but quickly lost it.

Can anyone help?

thanks,

Bins.