AccessRestrictedGrant clients private access to your staging site with .htaccess + cookie

My Process

• Develop locally using MAMP

• Clone site to staging.mysite.com for client review using BackupBuddy

• Clone to production on client approval

Gists

• .htaccess gist

• maintenance.php gist

Further Reading

• The snippets I’ve based my practice on:http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/rewrite

• Yoast on maintenance redirectshttp://yoast.com/http-503-site-maintenance-seo/

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