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Re: Restricting access to a website

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Restricting access to a website
Date 2011-07-11 08:17 +0100
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <ive81s$cqa$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
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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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Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-10 22:01 -0400
  Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-10 22:21 -0400
    Re: Restricting access to a website richard <member@newsguy.com> - 2011-07-10 22:49 -0400
      Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-11 06:38 -0400
    Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-11 16:08 -0400
      Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-11 17:29 -0400
        Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-11 18:21 -0400
          Re: Restricting access to a website Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-12 16:27 +0200
            Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-12 11:23 -0400
            Re: Restricting access to a website Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-12 10:33 -0600
              Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-12 13:04 -0400
              Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-12 15:13 -0400
                Re: Restricting access to a website Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-12 15:19 -0600
                Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-12 19:35 -0400
        Re: Restricting access to a website Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-11 17:24 -0600
          Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-11 20:38 -0400
            Re: Restricting access to a website Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-07-13 21:13 +0200
              Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-13 20:43 +0100
                Re: Restricting access to a website Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-07-13 21:53 +0200
                Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-14 00:17 +0100
                Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-14 00:12 -0400
                Re: Restricting access to a website Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-13 21:56 +0200
                Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-14 00:53 +0100
              Re: Restricting access to a website Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-13 21:49 +0200
                Re: Restricting access to a website Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2011-07-13 22:12 +0200
                Re: Restricting access to a website Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-14 00:13 +0200
                Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-14 00:54 +0100
                Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-14 00:14 -0400
              Re: Restricting access to a website Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-14 00:09 -0400
      Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-12 00:43 +0100
      Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-13 14:44 -0400
        Re: Restricting access to a website Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2011-07-13 21:05 -0400
  Re: Restricting access to a website The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-11 08:17 +0100
  Re: Restricting access to a website Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 00:32 +0800
  Re: Restricting access to a website Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 00:34 +0800
  Re: Restricting access to a website Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-14 08:55 -0400

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