AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

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.

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.

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

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