Question

Our current platform provider allows us to set deployed apps to private, which protects access to an app behind a log-in screen. This is great for deploying development versions of our website behind a wall for testing on the internet. Is there a feature or plug-in that can provide similarity on the Heroku platform? I know we could code our own…but we’d love to get away with relying on the provider for this.

Thanks,
Siegfried

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no.

I’ve always had to implement my own solution. For Ruby/Rack-based apps I usually implement Rack::Auth::Basic based on the RACK_ENV. That way I can easily turn off the authentication when the app goes to production.

For Node.js, I do the same environment check, and use Connect’s basicAuth middleware.