Can I password protect my public-html

[Collectors-info]

Hi, wile I am creating my site I want to stop any accidental visitors seeing any of the site as we will be setting up payments etcetera.
When I go into password protect area in c-panel I cant find public-html in any of the folders, or have I got this wrong ??.
Can you suggest a way I can stop anyone from viewing the site for now, but with a password so we can view.

Thanks,

Chris.

[navaldesign]

Re: Can I password protect my public-html

You cannot password protect the root directory. But you can create another directory, put all your other pages (index apart) in that directory, and password protect it.