Restriction to an environment

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Hello, can anyone help me with restriction of users to an environment? I’m a bit new to these stuff so pardon my ignorance :)

Here is my situation:

My test and production environment are on the same server

and lets say my urls will be as follows:

test = https://test.blabla.com

prod = https://www.blabla.com

So the situation are as follows:

  • prod will be accessed publicly (no problem here)

  • test should not be publicly accessible

  • test may have some remote users who can access it

  • those remote users doesn’t have static ip

i wanted to do this at my VirtualHost level, but i don’t know if this is possible and i don’t want to go to htaccess and htpasswd authentication

If this is not possible, can we do this at yii level? like restricting for gii using "allowedIps"? if yes, is this a good implementation???

what do you suggest me to do in my situation?

how do you guys manage your different environments?

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What web server are you running? If you’re using Apache, you can do it from a VirtualHost directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/access.html

You mention users don’t have static IPs. You’d run in to the same problems on a Yii level as a server level. You’re going to have to account for wildcards at some point, may as well implement it from the server.

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Im using apache.

Could you explain how can i do this in my virtual host?