Re: How to block IP addresses to the whole server?

["Daniel Reinhardt" <cryptodan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Reese" <howell.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 16 March, 2010 16:48
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  How to block IP addresses to the whole server?

> On 16-Mar-10 10:31, Je suis la poubelle wrote:
> >      Thanks to all for your replies.  For the record, <location> is
> > the best option for me.  This is the solution I use:
> >
> > edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to add the following section:
> > <Location />
> >   Order Allow,Deny
> >   Deny from xx.xx.xx.xx
> >   Deny from xx.xx.xx.xx
> >   Allow from all
> > </Location>
>
> That works, but if you add only the necessary parts of that to your
> .htaccess file, it is more dynamic. That is, you don't have to restart
> your HTTP server after each change.
> ex. add:
>
>   Order Allow,Deny
>   Deny from xx.xx.xx.xx
>   Deny from xxx.xx.xxx.xx
>   Deny from xx.xxx.
>   Allow from all
>
> to the .htaccess file in the root of your publicly-accessible pages
> and the changes go into effect on save, not when you restart Apache.
>
> Note that you can also block whole subnets, not just individual
> IP addresses.
>
> Reese
>
> >      There is nevertheless one thing I would like to do, but I'm
> > afraid I'm too demanding :p
> >
> >      Reply to forbidden IP addresses is a page full of informations:
> > Linux distro and version, Apache version, PHP version and all the
> > module versions.  Possible to prevent them from being shown?
>
>
>
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Reese,

I have already suggested this numerous times, yet they fail to respond back with 
a no thank you that isn't what I want to do, or any other questions.  I have 
ignored trying to help this individual.




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