I recently wrote about using multiple environments with GIT and ExpressionEngine. There is one last item that you likely need to manage and that is when you only want to password protect your staging environment and not your local or live environments. You generate an htpasswd file easily from here. After that, this code should help you configure your htaccess file so only your staging environement requires password authentication.
#allows everything if its on a certain host SetEnvIf HOST "^domain.dev" dev_url SetEnvIf HOST "^staging.domain.com" staging_url SetEnvIf HOST "^domain.com" live_url Order Deny,Allow AuthName "Authorized Access Only" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/staging/.htpasswd" AuthGroupFile / Require valid-user #Allow valid-user Deny from all # Allow from env=staging_url Allow from env=dev_url Allow from env=live_url Satisfy any« Back to Main