Securing a dev site (using IIS)

[dbreyley]

What is the best/easiest way to secure a dev site so that it can not be accidentally accessed by people from the outside and/or indexed by Google.

I was looking for a way to do this in IIS so that we don't need to worry about accidentally publishing code from the dev site to the live site.

I tried to set basic authentication,so that only users on the server would have access and would need to enter their credentials. In doing so I needed to disable anonymous and forms authentication, but the login in and add to cart functionality stopped working.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello,

Typically you'd just set the store to admin access only or set the port to something goggle and others access. 8080 is the typical port for experimental.

[NC Software]

You can set IIS to only allow access to your IP address

[jguengerich]

You could also put your dev site on a server on your internal network, not accessible from the internet.