Htaccess guide & tricks
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There are times when we need to deny some ips from accessing our page or we need to block a user or region from accessing our site. A quick way of temporarily stopping people from accessing your site is to block them by IP. To block people/computers with certain IPs from accessing your site, you can use the following command format: order allow,deny deny from 192.52.0.3 deny from 134.112.156 deny from 128.32.4.78 deny from 60.32 allow from all To implemenrtt this on your site, just copy the code above and put it in your htaccess file and replace the ip address with the ones you want to block. if you want to block an ip range say for example you want to block all people in an entire country, you will only need to enter a small portion of their IP such as 60.32. All IPs that begin with 60.32 such as 60.32.135.3 and 60.32.132.122 will also be blocked automatically. you can block as many individual ips by add as many deny from lines of code as you want. Allowing Only a Certain IPs
If you want to only allow a certain IP range to access your site or page eg a paid user to a section of your site, you can use allow from lines just like in the blocking above: order allow,deny allow from 123.456.789.012 deny from all Allowing only a certain IP should be used only for special situation, for you never know when your IP address may change. If you do control the IP address such as on your own private network or intranet, go all out with this setting if you don't have a better way of restricting access. Deny a user by IP Address
There may come a time when you unfortunately need to ban someone from visiting your website completely. This is very easy to do using htaccess. This can be useful to restrict a spammer, hacker or disgruntled member attacking your site. To ban someone completely all you need to do is add the following code to your .htaccess file. Simply replace the ip address below with the ip of the person you want to ban #ban users from visiting the site order allow,deny deny from 123.45.6.7 allow from all If you want to ban more people you simply add more lines, like this : #ban users from visiting the site order allow,deny deny from 153.45.6.8 deny from 87.65.4.7 deny from 78.45.34.34 allow from all |
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