Do you have content in your website that you would like to restrict access to? cPanel makes the process fairly painless. The first thing you have to do is to create a directory inside your public_html
directory that will contain your protected content. You can name it whatever you like. You can use your FTP client to create this directory or you can use cPanel’s file manager described earlier. Now come back to the Password Protection area. You will see a list of every directory inside your public_html
directory and a link for the current folder (which is your public_html
directory in this case). If you click the small icon of a folder next to the directory’s name, you will be able to see any directories nested inside that one. This way you can choose to protect a nested directory. If you click on the actual name of the directory, you will be taken to the security and account creation screen.
There are actually two separate things to do on this screen. The top...