| Re: Restricting access to a website [message #174822 is a reply to message #174820] |
Tue, 12 July 2011 00:38   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 7/11/2011 7:24 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>> ---
>>> 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.
>>
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> If you know the IP addrs - simply compare them to the Php global
> $SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].
>
>
No need to even go to that trouble. It can all be done in the Apache
configuration with no changes to the web pages at all.
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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net
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