Need suggestions for demo'ing client work securely

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

.htaccess files?
ssl + certificates?

-derek

Quoting kirblam at comcast.net:

> Hi Linux experts,
>
> I have a client that has a Linux based site, Apache, PHP and MySQL. I 
> managed to get most of the site running locally on my machine, get it 
> into CVS, make enhancements etc.
>
> They do not have a deployment environment yet and don't have a VPN. 
> They're a stable but small dot com - money's an issue but at least 
> they pay on time.
>
> In the short term, I'll open up port 80 on my router and forward 
> traffic to the Suse box. There are obvious reasons this isn't 
> optimal. I'll shut it down when the client isn't online.
>
> Basically, I'm looking for suggestions for demo'ing client work 
> that's more secure than simply opening up port 80. And I'd like to 
> assume that there could be more than one client in the future so it 
> should be something that could be repeated "n" times.
>
> I have a Suse 9.3 box running behind a Linksys WRT54GS. My ISP is Comcast.
> My skills are mainly web development (12 years) not administration 
> although I've been using and working in *nix for that same period of 
> time.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> jk
>
>
>
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