Blocking a specific IP address from accessing your website
How to block a specific IP address with .htaccess
You just have to create a file called .htaccess and place it in the www folder (or in a particular directory that you wish to restrict access to).
To deny access
This file should contain the deny rules. Each rule is specified on a line as follows:
deny from IP_address
or deny from IP_block
or deny from domain
Then all you have to do is replace the generic term with the element that you wish to block. Here are some examples:
- If you want to block the 192.168.1.2 IP address, you type:
deny from 192.168.1.2
- If you want to block all the 192.168.x.x IP addresses, you type:
deny from 192.168
- If you wanted to block all the IPs with a Wanadoo ID (this is just an example...), you would type:
deny from .wanadoo.com
To allow
In order to allow certain IPs, you should replace deny with allow (compared to the examples above)
Example: If you want to allow the 192.168.1.2 IP address, you type:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168.1.2
However, you cannot allow an incomplete IP block, in other words you can enter:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168.1
This will work, but if you enter the following you will get a 500 error, for example:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 192.168
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