How to password protect staging environment?

[neounix (Dark Matter)]

@Terrapop

As Discourse is not using Apache how to password protect e.g. a staging environment (Digital Ocean droplet with Discourse docker) as you would do with .htaccess (Apache)?

Hey @Terrapop

Here is an idea for you and is how we do it.

If you run your staging env behind Apache2 (or nginx) as a reverse proxy you can set up access rules in the reverse proxy as you would with .htaccess like you are familiar with.

There are myriad advantages for running Discourse behind a reverse proxy and ease of access control is just one benefit.

HTH