I recently upgraded to apache 2.4.35 and was having some issues with password file to secure xymon-seccgi. I got not get apache to read the password file. To get it to work I had to change from Require all granted to Require all denied. Now, it works. I get prompted to enter username and password.
Here is the section from my httpd.conf file for your reference if you will run into similar problems.
ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/cgi-secure/"
<Directory "/opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/cgi-secure">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI Includes
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.4+
Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</IfModule>
# Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept.
# Although expected in $XYMONHOME/etc/ by the useradm and chpasswd
# scripts, files here can be read with the "config" message type,
# which allows status-privileged clients to read arbitrary regular files
# from the directory.
#
# This file should be owned and readable only by the apache server user,
# and ideally merely a symlink to a location outside of $XYMONHOME/etc/
#
# Create it with:
# htpasswd -c /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME
# chown apache:apache /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
# chmod 640 /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
# Add more users / change passwords with: "htpasswd /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME"
#
# You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a
# group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup
# the "xymongroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require
# a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details.
AuthUserFile /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
AuthGroupFile /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymongroups
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Xymon Administration"
# "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in.
Require valid-user
# "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND
# are members of the "admins" group in xymongroups.
# Require group admins
</Directory>
I also enabled the following modules.
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_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so
LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so