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Yes you can use .htpasswd files with Vae, I have had to do this before.

For finding the server path to the .htpasswd file if we put it in the root FTP directory, I would just use the $_SERVER array to find this information with php.

<?php
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

Generally if you password-protect the root of the staging site, nothing will work properly.

We recommend using <v:users:login> (and you could combine this with <v:if path="staging()">).

http://docs.vaeplatform.com/v_users_login

Ah, yeah. I thought about using the v:users:login tag, but we are using that elsewhere for production purposes (its an ecommerce shop), so I didn't want to worry about any backdoor loopholes into the staging site. I'll see what I can come up with though. Maybe just needs an extra logic test.

Also, I've found that v:if path="staging()" only protects the non-www version of the staging site. I noticed this in some SEO testing, where www links to the staging site are showing up in search results even though we have the norobots meta tag inserted if its the staging site.

In other words, v:if path="staging()" works for mysite.vaesite.com, but it doesn't work for www.mysite.vaesite.com.