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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt
Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

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Best way to make website only accessible to you or some selected people?

I actually want to use simply GitHub markdown, but I fear of unauthorized access.

Also, I might to, in the future, make the website HTML and API powered, not just Markdown.

No need for complete user system, though. Everyone will be seeing the same contents.

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vikneswaran • Edited

If you want to have a access controled content management and website like feel. Try some of the WIKI softwares which enables restricted access only to certain users.

This is some of the applications I am sharing. There are lot of softwares out there feel free to find one based on your requirement. Also, you can use cloud based solutions or self hosted versions.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

Interesting. I will look into them.

I can also work as kind-of-web-board too, I guess. Although it also depends on the price.

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vikneswaran

The Wiki.js and Tiddly wiki are open source software. You can have them self hosted in cloud or internal server

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Lea de Groot

If it is hosted under Apache, look into .htpasswd - this how the "dropdowns" for user name and password you occasionally see are done.
Upside: cant be hacked by getting into your db (not db driven); extremely simple to implement
Downside: cant do rate limiting to deter dictionary etc attacks

Unsure if "using githib markdown" means you are hosting it on github - don't think it would work there, you wont have access to uplaod the .htpasswd file :(

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

Well, I am focusing on easy-to-create and easy-to-maintain. Easy-to-PR, as in code-less awesome GitHub repos would be nice, so it would be easy to contribute (in my circle only).

I probably will post an external link to password-protected Google Docs. However, Google Docs probably aren't as powerful as Markdown...

Edit: I would probably use password-protected Dropbox. Seem easier IMO.

Edit2: End up using box.com. Dropbox can also, but it is paid. Google Drive cannot.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

My thought is actually password-protected Google Docs, and ones with the password can access.

Since I am going to share the password anyway, I probably won't make it super strong.

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Karan Gandhi

This guy