: How to wrap up and protect project under development My company is working on a new web app and it's website is developed by outsourced company (let's say under beta.mydomain.com). Of course

@Murray432

Use HTTP Authentication. When visiting the page people would be prompted with a login box. If they log in the site works as expected, if they don't have valid login credentials they get a "401 - Unauthorized" error and nothing else.

You don't have to change your website code of anything for this. It can be enabled from your hosting control panel, of from your .htaccess file.

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@Sent6035632

If the beta has an admin side, or even accounts in general, just use those. Don't render the site unless they are logged in as an admin or a dev. This would also prevent it from being crawled since bots wouldn't be logged in.

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@Annie201

Well the best and quickest way of doing this, and I think it's the more plausible as well is to restrict access for every IP Address and only allow your own IP Address to have access to the website.
This can be done via htaccess, by adding this rule:

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 111.222.333.444


Later if you need to allow more than one IP Address, just add below another Addresses

allow from 000.222.000.444

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