how to restrict access website by IP ?
 

Hi friends,

I have one issue with my apache virtual hosting...

I have registered one domain for my personal usage purpose (exp: sandeep.com), this sandeep.com hosting done in office linux rhel-5 server, For this hosting i have modified /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and mentioned below things in end of the file...

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root@www.sandeep.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/www.sandeep.com/html
ServerName www.sandeep.com
ServerAlias sandeep.com *.sandeep.com
ErrorLog logs/www.sandeep.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/www.sandeep.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

also given office public IP and sandeep.com in /etc/hosts file...

here i have 2 doubts,

1) whenever I access this website by direct public IP its opening as well as its opening with name (www.sandeep.com) , Here I don't want to open website by IP address, if office people open direct IP its showing my personal website in IP , that i dont want... How to avoid this issue? (on this office not configured any websites, just httpd service is running, even i dont want to open my personal website by IP address...)

2) when i try with (www.sandeep.com) its working fine but when i try for (sandeep.com) its redirecting to (http://sandeep.com) but not opening website.. its giving error on this...how can i make my site to access for "www.sandeep.com" "sandeep.com" http://sandeep.com) (http://www.sandeep.com)...


Thanks and Regards,
Sandeep CC

The first host defined in apache becomes the default host when the server is accessed by IP, try changinc the order of the sites in your httpd.conf file.
If I remember correctly, the ServerAlias directive doesn't accept multiple arguments, so you'll need: And any other aliases defined individually.

TenTenths, Thanks for your quick reply...

1. Is not possible to keep apache default page for opening by IP? If I give IP then should come apache default page and if i give www.sandeep.com then my index.html page should come...

2. Yes (ServerAlias sandeep.com), I have tried with multiple options... even its not opening without www. (if i give sandeep.com then error is coming like The requested URL could not be retrieved)

Regards,
Sandeep CC

That is a DNS issue, not a server configuration issue - you don't have an IP number assigned to the name sandeep.com.

hi jpollard,

Thanks for your reply,

actually sandeep.com i have registered in bigrock.com... there minimum we have to give one static IP... there only i have mentioned office static IP...(@ office server not running dns service, only activated httpd service for my virtual host, there s no other any office website to configure... Just i wanna get site open by name, by office IP should not open thats it...because its my personal work if someone come to know that i m using office IP , it wont look good thats the reason i am trying to remove website to access by IP...)

can you clear me where i am doing mistake?


Regards,
Sandeep CC

here you doing mistake... as stated above this is a DNS issue.