I have recently updated my Synology (DS110j) to DSM 5.0-4482.
I read somewhere that user authentication should now work out of the box. I decided to give it a try. And success!!! It works.
There is no longer any need for:
Code:
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so
LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so
LoadModule authn_dbd_module modules/mod_authn_dbd.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
.htaccess with:
Code:
<FilesMatch "\.php$">
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "User & password:"
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user
</FilesMatch>
worx!
[I did not test this on the synology package, I installed COPS from source.]
PS: I had some trouble editing the .htaccess file with vi. The last line of the file (</FilesMatch>) was not visible. I forgot to delete #. This caused a lot of 
and 
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once I figured this out.