Password Protect front end

[Vinaren]

Hi
I'm looking for a plugin that can password protect the front end,
It would be good for us to have this during development to make sure that no one can access the site, also during times that we are doing maintenance but need to access the site.

Best would be to have a customizable message for the customer. 

Maybe I'm blind.. but I have not been able to locate any plugin that does this.

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @Vinaren,

Which version of Magento are you using?

[bitExpert]

Not exactly your use-case but you might want to give our Force Login module a try.

[Vinaren]

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@Damian Culotta wrote:

Hi @Vinaren,

Which version of Magento are you using?

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Magento 1.9.x free version.

[Vinaren]

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@bitExpert wrote:

Not exactly your use-case but you might want to give our Force Login module a try.

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Thanks but but it's for magento 2 and does not quite fit what we want.

[MagenX]

https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/24389/1-9-0-1-maintenance-mode

usually index.php modified like this:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$allowed = array('1.2.3.4','1.2.3.4');
if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !in_array($ip, $allowed) && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/admin_path/') === false && empty($_COOKIE['adminhtml'])) {
    include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/errors/503.php';
    exit;
}

then you just customize your 503 page template as you like.

[Vinaren]

This is a multi-site installation, we need to close a specific site with password

[Aitoc]

Hi @Vinaren,

You can actually put your website into maintenance mode and just customize your maintenance message to customers.

Here is the discussion on the topic for example. This might be the easiest way for you, check it out.

Hope this helps!