What are the practices for showing the project to the customer during development?

Question

Web development

I raised the site on vds, I develop it locally at home, I update the site on vds via git. How can I close access for search engines and "passers-by", except how to open access from a specific ip and so that the customer can view the site without any problems?

Answer 1

Give the Customer a link with the installation of cookies on this domain with a redirect to the main one.
On the site - check cookies: not needed - error 404.

Answer 2

Setting the HTACCESS login password completely
https://htmlweb.ru/service/htpasswd.php
Prohibition of indexing through robots, enough
yapro.ru/web-master/xhtml/kak-zapretiti-indeksaciy...

Answer 3

Make password authorization with .htaccess and .htpasswd

Answer 4

Raise the site on a non-standard port.

Answer 5

https://ngrok.com/ - to help you .. cheap and cheerful

Answer 6

I restrict access by IP address. Just add a block to .htaccess:

<Limit GET>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 10.0.2.4
allow from 83.246.160.116
allow from 109.167.205.1
</Limit>

The customer can tell you his IP address by going to the site 2ip.ru

Answer 7

Basic simple authorization on the server - completely solves the problem of access to the page for outsiders