A plugin for Hestia Control Panel (via hestiacp-pluginable) that makes an entire website domain inaccessible until a magic link URL is first visited.
HCPP-MagicLink requires an Ubuntu or Debian based installation of Hestia Control Panel in addition to an installation of HestiaCP-Pluginable (version 2.X or higher) to function; please ensure that you have first installed pluginable on your Hestia Control Panel before proceeding. Clone the latest release version (i.e. replace v1.0.0 below with the latest release version) to the magiclink folder:
cd /usr/local/hestia/plugins
sudo git clone --branch v1.0.0 https://github.com/virtuosoft-dev/hcpp-magiclink magiclink
Magic Link will lock down an entire website domain and prevent any visitors from seeing the website regardless of backend technology (HTML, PHP, or NodeJS). Visitors will only see a page 404 for any URLs under the given domain. Under the Edit Web Domain page you will find a new Require secret Magic Link to visit site option. Use the checkbox to generate a unique URL that you can send to clients to authorize access to your webiste. With Magic Link turned on, your website domain will become invisible to all users unless they first visit the given URL. Clicking the Magic Link URL will automatically copy the URL to your clipboard (see #1, figure 1 below).
Figure 1 - Magic Link URL
The Magic Link plugin will also change the open website icon to use the Magic Link URL on the Web listing screen for any sites that have Magic Link turned on.
Note
You must save the form to take effect. Magic Link will regenerate a unique URL (invalidating any prior URL) when you turn off and on the Require secret Magic Link... checkbox between saves.
Tip
Magic Link supports redirects. You can append a redirect GET paramter to the Magic Link URL if you want to redirect to a specific subfolder or page on your website. For example, appending the string ?redirect=/about-us to the Magic Link URL example from the screenshot:
http://test1.dev.pw/ml_XE40Laj?redirect=/about-us
This will automatically authorize the user's web browser to view the entire website domain on test1.dev.pw and immediately redirect them to the page at:
http://test1.dev.pw/about-us
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