On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 10:40 -0400, CodeHeads wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2006 09:56:33 +0100 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 22:41 -0400, CodeHeads wrote: > > > Have a quick question. Did not find what i was looking for on google. > > > > > > Say if my document root for my virtual sites is /var/www/sites > > > > > > Can I put the following .htaccess file in the document root to restrict > > > access? Order allow,deny > > > allow from all > > > deny from 123.123.133.145 > > > > > > I know that I can use the httpd.conf file, but I am tring to do something a > > > bit faster. > > > > A bit fast in what way? > > > > If you set up the access controls in httpd.conf and have "AllowOverride > > None" then the web server doesn't have to check for .htaccess files for > > every single access, and hence will perform faster. > > Sorry Paul, I should have been more precise in explaining this :). I have some > restricted directories already that use htaccess. So yes it is set to look for > the htaccess file. > > > Or do you mean faster to set up, so you don't have to reload the server > > config? > > Yes, you are right. Instead of using the httpd.conf file, and entering the ip's > then restarting apache. I would rather have one file in the doc root that I can > change. I think I explained that right. :) I think it should work if you have the AllowOverride in the main httpd.conf for this directory. You could always test it by banning one of your own IPs. Paul.
