how do i block people from seeing my website

[dominatrix1]

I am in the process of building a website but do not want it to be built in public - i am doing it on wordpress

how can i make it so when somebody types in my web address they do not get the "work in progress"?

 

[GravyMonster]

Install LAMP or XAMPP on your local machine and test there.

 

[st00dent]

At the top of your index.php page

if ( ! $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == 'YOUR.IP.ADDRESS')
{
    die();
}

 

[dominatrix1]

cheers

 

[Spils]

I just use maintance mode for this, Only people registered can see the site, everyone else will not.

 

[Hyburnate]

Either that or move wordpress over to another directory and password it, it may cause problems

 

[eXor]

htaccess & htpasswd

 

[tedaC]

I generally use maintenance mode http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

Means you can still easily view edit, while no-one else can.

 

[articburgo]

Create an htaccess and htpasswd file as said above. The PHP code will need to be placed in a header file or on each file on the website.

The fastest method is htpasswd by far!

 

[Muel]

Just build it offline is the best way. Building on a live server is not good practice IMO.

Either install XAMP like most, or if you'd rather do it the hard way (like me) then download vmware player, install ubuntu server on it and set up a LAMP stack on that, along with ftp, and do it that way. Personally I like doing it this way as it allows to to write all my scripts in Windows stored in my Dropbox, then transfer across with the ftp client built into dreamweaver when I'm ready to test it.

 

[Van Hellseek]

Maintenance mode is by far the simplest way, and would probably be sufficient for your needs. Or if you really don't want anyone to see it at all, then htaccess.

 

[AHarvey]

usbwebserver is great for offline dev, really simple to.

Only issue I've had is that they've just removed SMTP from it