If you run a WordPress site or manage a cPanel hosting account, there are likely directories on your server that you don’t want the general public to access. Whether it’s a staging environment, an admin dashboard, a members-only section, or sensitive configuration files, cPanel’s built-in Directory Privacy feature (powered by Apache’s .htaccess and .htpasswd files) lets you lock down any folder with username and password credentials. It’s one of the simplest yet most effective security measures you can implement — and you can do it entirely from the cPanel interface without touching a terminal.