Privat

Privat is a very simple password protection for Laravel projects. It's useful for websites in a staging state.

Usage

Install with composer

composer require code16/privat

Configure Privat via .env keys

PRIVAT_ENABLED=true
PRIVAT_PASSWORD=mypassword

Advanced usage

Choose impacted middleware groups

By default, Privat will protect the web middleware group. If you want to impact other groups, you can tweak the corresponding .env key:

PRIVAT_MIDDLEWARE_GROUP=web,admin

Handle exceptions

You can exclude some hosts or URLs from Privat:

PRIVAT_EXCEPTED_URLS="/login,/admin"
PRIVAT_EXCEPTED_HOSTS="admin.mywebsite.com"

Waiting page

If you need to present a public waiting page, set the waiting page view name in the PRIVAT_WAITING_VIEW env key:

PRIVAT_WAITING_VIEW="demo.waiting"

From then, all requests without the Privat registration will be redirected to /privat_waiting which will render the configured view, except /privat, which will still present the Privat form.

Publish the config file

Of course, you can publish the config file instead of using env variables (even if we think it’s more convenient for such a tool):

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Code16\Privat\PrivatServiceProvider"

How does it work

Quite simple: if the given password is correct, Privat sets a session property, and look for it on each request. So, obviously, Privat won't work on non session based systems (an API for instance).

License

MIT