| Re: Restricting access to a website [message #174804 is a reply to message #174800] |
Mon, 11 July 2011 07:17   |
The Natural Philosoph
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Graham Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I 'very laboriously' coded my index.php (close to novice level), for
> my website and it is up and running. It's not public yet and needs to
> stay that way. I need to give the address to two people who will help
> with my product's development .. but they could reveal the address
> anywhere, inadvertently or otherwise.
>
> If, for example, my website is www .lahdedah. com, I want to allow
> full access to these two people (and me:-)) .. others would get a
> 'Sorry, not yet available' screen. I envision hard coding their home
> address's into my index.php?? Am not interested in any additional
> typing by these three.
>
> Hope I've been clear. Is this feasible, easy/hard/unusual?
> Please, thanks
> Graham
If they are on fixed IP, its a snap to respond differently to them.
If they are on dynamic addresses the quick hack is to drop a password
protection file (.htaccess typically) in the server root directory and
create usernames and passwords for them.
But that's an apache setup issue, and off topic here.
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