help! able to view htaccess file!

[bentaylor]

I've got the following line in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>


but if I create a file called /var/www/htdocs/test.htaccess and then browse to http://mysite/test.htaccess, it serves up the content of it!

How can i get it to work correctly? This is worrying.
I am using gentoo.

[bentaylor]

edit: actually don't worry about it i've realised that it has to start with a dot rather than just have that as the extension.