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Jason
Asked: 2011-08-30 19:55:16 +0800 CST

deny all by ip .htaccess

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I've been attempting to restrict access to an internet connected apache instance. My router has a port forward to the machine that is running apache. Don't know if this makes a difference.

Anyway I want to restrict it to LAN access only for the moment, and I want to use htaccess so that later I can enable visitors based on specific IPs. It is a dev server that I want my clients to be able to remotely preview, but not anyone else.

I've tried the instructions here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess.php which explain to do this 

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168.1

In my .htaccess file, but this doesn't work, I can still access it from outside the lan. I'm trying it from my phone's 3g and it works.

If I change the order to something like 

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1

(remove the comma) as per the apache docs here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html#allow and the page still allows access on my phone and on the local.

Any ideas?

.htaccess deny

1 Answers

  1. Check if you have AllowOverride All to make sure that your .htaccess is not ignored.

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