December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
48h 24m
English
One of the simplest ways to limit access to website material is to restrict access to a specific group of users, based on IP addresses or hostnames. Apache uses the allow and deny directives to accomplish this.
Both directives take an address expression as a parameter. The following list provides the possible values and use of the address expression:
• All can be used to affect all hosts.
• A hostname or domain name, which can either be a partially or a fully qualified domain name; for example, test.gnulix.org or gnulix.org.
• An IP address, which can be either full or partial; for example, 212.85.67 or 212.85.67.66.
• A network/netmask pair, such as 212.85.67.0/255.255.255.0.
• A network address specified ...
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