Creating copy of opencart server on godaddy for testing purposes. Do I need another ssl certificate?

Question

I currently have a live opencart 3.0.2.0 site hosted on godaddy. Since there's a lot of issues with creating a copy of this site to a localhost, (.htaccess,mod rewrites, and seo urls) I want to do this apart from localhosting.

My question is, since ssl certificates run around 70 dollars, is there an alternative security measure that I could implement for this testing site since only myself and maybe two others will be needed to access this?

Answer 1

Just place a .htpasswd and a .htaccess in the root folder of your website.

.htaccess

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Forbidden"
AuthUserFile /var/www/website1/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

Create the .htpasswd via the command:

htpasswd -c /var/www/website1/.htpasswd username

In this example the .htpasswd is located next to .htaccess in same folder. This is not considered as a good practice. You should place it outside of the public folder.