Many a times, the website owners may want to protect their website and its content publicly. Such as during the website maintenance, upgrade process, and more. Webmasters can use the .htaccess files to protect their whole website or few of its pages using passwords. If you are an online store owner, you may sometimes require to protect your website from the public due to a couple of reasons. Some of the reasons to password protect your Magento store with .htaccess are migrating, upgradation, maintenance, bug-fixing, and more. For that, you may need to create a .htpasswd file in the root directory, add the login credentials, and update the .htaccess file on your website.