What this is
A tiny stand-in for the intake-review flagship: a site a council team wants to look at before the public does. The whole point of this demo is the gate in front of it. Put a username/password on it, share the credentials with the team, and reviewers can preview the work-in-progress while crawlers and the public stay out — no accounts, no SSO, just HTTP Basic auth over TLS.
The catch worth seeing
The login gate covers the site only. Your function endpoints
under /api stay reachable, so the code and webhooks that call them
keep working while the human-facing pages are locked. The widget below proves it
by calling /api/status from this page:
Checking API…