Re: Restricting access to a website [message #174820 is a reply to message #174817] |
Mon, 11 July 2011 23:24 |
Chuck Anderson
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 7/11/2011 4:08 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:21:41 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
>> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
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>>> On 7/10/2011 10:01 PM, 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
>>>
>>> There are any number of ways to do it, none of which require PHP or any
>>> other server-side language. Try alt.apache.configuration (assuming, of
>>> course, you're using Apache).
>>>
>>> Also, unless you are David Small of Small Expressions, you shouldn't be
>>> using his domain name in an example. Use www.example.com, which is
>>> reserved for just such a purpose.
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>> Jerry, folks, thanks,
>>
>> Will check into alt.apache.configuration and apologies about lahdedah,
>> didn't know about example.com.
>>
>> But I wasn't emphatic enough .. yes I would know their IP addresses so
>> CAN I hard code them in my index.php? Yes or no would do and a PHP
>> buzzword I might search on to get started .. I just prefer all my code
>> in one place.
>>
>> .. am definitely not interested in extra keying of passwords by my two
>> associates.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Graham
>
> You definitely need alt.apache.configuration. No need to do anything
> to your php code.
>
If you know the IP addrs - simply compare them to the Php global
$SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].
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