I was told today by LP tech support that new accounts get LPCP instead of the advertised Cpanel.  Ok.  I was also told by tech support that LPCP does not have a tool to password protect folders.  Not ok.  I need to put some sensitive data on my site that must be password protected.  Tech support said that all I could do is create a redirect and gave me some code to put into a file.  I'm lost, especially in light of the rather featureless interface of LPCP.  Does anyone here know how I can securely put my data into a folder?

Thanks for the reply.  The resource that you provided is pretty good, even going so far as having a tool for generating encrypted passwords.  I'll have to puzzle over the article's contents a bit more before I will be able to get folder protection up and running.  While this method appears to do what Cpanel does in terms of functionality, the point and click nature of the Cpanel tool is certainly a lot more user friendly than having to put together several files of code.

Your assistance is much appreciated.  Again, thank you.

Thanks for the feedback link.  I will be contacting them about this issue.

With what I got from this forum and what I received from tech support, I managed to get password protection working.  It took hours to work out each piece of the puzzle, especially to finally work out the full path to the password file so that I could list it in the access file.  If you should decide to put together a FAQ or tutorial file on this issue, I've now got some resources that help in arriving at successful completion.  I'll be happy to share them.

That's my biggest problem so far, figuring out the FULL path.  The help desk gave me some good ideas, but the code sample is different than found on http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml and the password encrpytor: http://www.tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/.  Everyone says to put the .htpasswd file above where a browser will see it (i.e. before /public_html) but I have no idea what to call it.