'DIrectory resirctions for forbidden and directory listing not working in .htaccess

On my Ubuntu 18.04 server, I am trying to restrict access to a set of files in a directory in apache2 with .htaccess. The webroot is /var/www/app and the directory I want to restrict access is /var/www/app/files. I want any request going into that directory to return 403 , also I want the directory listing to be disabled. Even the user knows the name of the file in that directory, they shouldn't be able to access it whatsoever. I am guessing adding the following lines in the /var/www/app/files/.htaccess should do the job.

Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 "Forbidden"

But when I add this file to the location, it does nothing. Even restarted the service and changed permissions to the .htaccess to www-data. Nothing seems to work. Not sure why.

And I also tried using this to deny access to the directory.

<ifModule mod_authz_core.c>
    Require all denied
</ifModule>
<ifModule !mod_authz_core.c>
    Deny from all
</ifModule>

It didn't work either.

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