Hi guys,

I'm building my first e-commerce website (yahoo!) and have pretty much narrowed it down to between VirtueMart and Zen Cart.

I'm interested in evaluating Zen Cart but want to password protect the entire site while I am working on it so that: a) the search engines will not spider my site at all; and b) only people with the password can see and access the site.


My questions are:

1. Is .htaccess the best way to do this, or does Zen Cart have something built-in?
2. Will password-protecting a Zen Cart site affect its operation in any way?