I was curious how one would go about limiting access to a domain while it's under construction. I've developed quite a bit of the site locally using a virtual host, but now I'm needing to upload what I've done to my host so i may farther develop the site. What I'm needing to happen is for no one but myself to have access to the domain and it's sub-directories. I was curious if there was an easy way to accomplish this in my hosting control panel, or if I need to write a .php that only allows access to whoever knows the proper username and password? Any advice is appreciated...
Hi. Do you use static IP Internet connection? If yes, then allowing site access for that IP only can be a quick and easy solution for you.
I use dynamic Ip addressing, and I have a couple places that I work on this at...or that would be the perfect solution.
Figured this out. I contacted my support team where i have my hosting and there was a simple "Password Protect" option that you can select for all the folders/files that are on your section of server, or the entire domain. This was very handy.