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I thought for sure this would be a normal thing, but while reading about Nitrous, Koding, Codio, etc, I couldn't quite find it.

I want to build a site in an online IDE and share a private url with people to use it. I don't want the public to see it, only those that I invite via email or authentication or ???

I thought Codio did it, but it says that no-one can see a private url. And everyone can see a public url. Not what I want.

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  • being able to "share" a URL with people outside your local network by default means the URL is public and not private :) only other way to control access is to IP restrict or add username and passwords. – Shaunak Sep 23 '15 at 05:42
  • I just want to do testing. Codio says you can have private URLs with their pay accounts. These are not local, they are online with xxxxx.codio.io.app/xxxx. It gave me some message when I first changed to private, but then I am still able to access from any device. Might be a better question for Codio, but was wondering if anyone else had experience with an IDE where I can do this. – timlohnes Sep 23 '15 at 06:09

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You can set http basic auth on rails and django applications on Nitrous.

Here's a detailed article explaining how to set http basic auth on a Rails and Django application:

https://community.nitrous.io/docs/setting-up-basic-auth-on-nitrous-preview-urls

Example Rails controller code: 

class PostsController < ApplicationController
   http_basic_authenticate_with name: "foo", password: "bar", except: :index

   def index
     render text: "This text can be seen by everyone."
   end

   def edit
     render text: "You can only view this if you know the username and password."
   end
end
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