I have started creating a small website & wish to allow selected people to view it for criticism/improvement reasons. If I upload it to /public/ it will be visible to the public, which I don't want. If I upload to /private/ it is not visible. Is there a way of allowing certain people to view a website in /private/, perhaps with a password, during development?
For a website to be accessible to others across the Internet is has to be in the public folder. Password protection of the folder (aka directory) containing the site under development can be achieved by ammending the htaccess file See tutorial