Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Tenth Edition

Restricting Access with allow and deny

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 ...