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Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-23-2013
[eluser]Alhazred[/eluser]
I have to put online a website, but before to allow to anyone to use it, I need to test it online.
During the test I want that anyone will see a "work in progress" page, but I want to be able to use it normally.
I know that I could put a redirect to any view file or controller, but there are a lot, so I was thinking something different, something easier to set and unset.
I can't put a redirect only to the main controller because if in example some one writes
www.website.com/aboutus
he opens the "About us" page and from there he could use the menu to navigate.
I was thinking to put something into the index.php, where any request has to pass, but I don't know if it is possible to modify it to have what I need.
Do you have any suggestion?
Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-23-2013
[eluser]Alhazred[/eluser]
Just to say what I'm thinking: my idea was to read the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] value and according to that decide if it's me or some one else.
Of course my current IP address would be hardcoded and changed manually if needed.
Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-24-2013
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Do you use an .htaccess file? Here's the code from mine I use for when I put the site into maintenance mode. Hopefully it will help you.
Code:
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance_mode.php
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123\.45\.67\.89
#RewriteRule $ /maintenance_mode.php [NC,L]Just use your own IP address, and make sure you have a file in your Web root called maintenance_mode.php (with a message to your users), then uncomment those lines.
Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-24-2013
[eluser]Alhazred[/eluser]
Yes, of course I use an .htaccess file, it is very simple at the moment
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance.php
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^127\.0\.0\.1
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.php [NC,L]I've put a maintenance.php file in the web root.
if I try to access the site it works regularly, I've tried to change the IP address and I obtain an Internal Server Error message.
I've tried to comment my 2 additional lines
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
in this case:
with 127.0.0.1 I can access the home page, but as I click any link, I got an error because the url is not correctly routed by CI
If I put a different IP into the .htaccess I'm redirected to the maintenance.php page
So, what I have at the moment is:
- I can use the site, but other people gets an error
- other people gets and under maintenance page, but I cant use the site
How do you set your .htaccess to use the website and give the under maintenance page to the users?
Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-24-2013
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Try this:
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance.php
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^127\.0\.0\.1
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.php [NC,L]
# If the URL starts with the following, redirect to the index.php.
# This is not necessary if you don't have your application or system directories in your Web root.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(system|application)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
# Check to see if the file or directory exists. If it doesn't, re-route via index.php.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]The order was incorrect, so it was mangling the URL. I've also edited your existing .htaccess data to make it a little more robust.
If that doesn't work, you may need to substitute the IP address with your actual internal IP address. i.e 192.168.0.1, or whatever.
Forbid the site's browsing to anyone but not to me - El Forum - 03-24-2013
[eluser]Alhazred[/eluser]
Thank you, that works.