Cannot create password protected folders

[Miclicks]

After adding in variables NEXT_PUBLIC_PROTECTED_ROUTES: /Index/protect1,/Index/protect2
uploading .password files that includes passwords in protect1 and protect2, folders are not protected and .password file does not vanish.
Looks like this:

One thing i do to make vlc streaming works i did change my vercel domain simply to mysitename.vercel.app(name is an example not my actual domain.
Can you help me with that?

[Miclicks]

Hey its solved!! changed NEXT_PUBLIC_PROTECTED_ROUTES to /protect1,/protect2 even if the files are inside Index folder