Delete the .htpasswd file and create another. Remember to tell everyone what the new password is. If it is more convenient to do so, you my like to just add another login name and password to the access list. In Unix when a file name begins with a full stop then the file is hidden. You can see it with ls -a which is the command to list all files.
Permissions are incorrect.
At the Minyos command line enter these commands. Directories must have execute permissions assigned to them. It just isn't working. In Minyos, upper case and lower case letters are different. A and a are just not the same thing.