.htaccess deny from external IP file

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:22 am

I tried to do this, but got this error on both sites. This is the outline I used

Code:

How can we forbid a list of externally configured hosts from using our server? 


Solution:


RewriteEngine on


RewriteMap hosts-deny txt:/path/to/hosts.deny


RewriteCond ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_HOST}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND [OR]


RewriteCond ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND


RewriteRule ^/.* - [F]

and then received a 500 error code. Does this have to be placed in a specific location in the htaccess file? Thank you, Steve

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I'll look into this. I just did a copy/paste for the article. And no, it doesn't have to be i any special place. I'll get back to you on it.