Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Authentication and Access Control

There will be times when you have material on your Web site that is not supposed to be available for the general public. You need to be able to lock out these areas somehow and only provide the means to unlock them to the right users. There are several ways in which you can accomplish this type of access, authentication, and authorization with Apache. You can use different criteria to control access to these sections, from simply checking the client's IP address or hostname to asking for a username and password. This section briefly covers some of these methods.

Access Restrictions with allow and deny

One of the simplest ways to provide access to a specific group of users is to restrict accesses based ...