How to create passworded areas/directories without a control panel?

A friend has gave me some space in his hosting account and I publish my websites from there. However I dont have a control panel/SSH or anything like that.

All i have is ftp to my files, phpmyadmin and email system.

Now I need to create some passworded areas. Could be directories or just some pages. So the question is;

Is there anyway to create passworded directories/files without a control panel like cpanel?
I though maybe there is a way to set a password through .htaccess or maybe via a php file or something.

 

Which operating system do you use?

 

You mean me? I use vista. But I dont host my website from home.

He got the hosting through godaddy. I dont know the OS he uses. I can ask if you need. But what is that gonna do? I dont have a control panel like cpanel,kloxo etc.

 

Please follow the instructions present in the URL : http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/password-protect-directory.shtml

 

I dont have access for that either. As i said before. I have ftp, email and phpmyadmin access. Thas all.

 

You can ask your friend to do it.I think he/she will help you in this regards.

 

He did but still doesnt work. This is what i got in my .htaccess

AuthUserFile /home/content/75/9886475/html/MYFOLDER/.htpasswd 
AuthName "Please Log In" 
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

Code (markup):

This is what i got in my .htpasswd

test:$apr1$OgZ24kXF$ZWx5EDjYB6q/5hZMZnGHR/

Code (markup):

Both htaccess and htpasswd are in the folder which is suppose to be passworded. But when i go to index.html in that folder i get the login screen and then i get 500 server error.

However when I put the path in htaccess as /MYFOLDER/.htpasswd i still get the login screen and then 500 error