DSpace 7 -Restrict site access to Administrators

[Eric Montague]

While our DSpace 7 site is under development, we would like to restrict
access to the site,
to logged-in DSpace Administrators. Is there a relatively easy way to do
with by temporarily modifying the Front End?
Eg. making Login an initial (guard) page.

I've been unsuccessful in attempting to implement Basic Auth in the
Apache Virtual Server.

Thanks for any suggestions.

- eric

[Eric Montague]

Never mind.  I found a way to implement Basic Auth in the Apache Virtual
Server.

Luckily, we have 2 domain names registered for our site.
I use one domain name for the Virtual Front End and the other domain
name for the Virtual Back End.
That way I can require Basic Auth for the Front End but not require it
for the Back End.
I was unsuccessful implementing Basic Auth when I was proxying both the
Front End and the Back End
from the same Virtual Server.

- eric