Apache Only allow certain IP's and redirect others

chenxiaolong · 08-14-2009, 01:09 PM

I'm using Apache 2 on a Linux server and I was wondering if it was possible to redirect certain IP ranges to another page. I know it's possible to block an IP, but is there a way to block all IP's and only allow a certain IP range to connect, such as 5.87.xxx.xxx? I own this server, so if I need to use another OS, webserver, change configuration files, etc., that's fine.

teebones · 08-14-2009, 01:24 PM

modrewrite might be helpful

or you can reroute through your firewall (depending on OS, IPtables e.g, to a virtual network device (bonded adapter confg e.g. eth1:1)
and in the apache conf, set the site for that device to respond to.

NameVirtualHost the.ip.address.here:80 (subsitute the.ip.address.here with the real ip)
in apache, and then the rest of the config added to it.

chenxiaolong · 08-14-2009, 11:12 PM

How would I do that? The computers within 5.87.*.* should be able to access the index page and all other people get redirected to http://domain.com/alternatesite. I don't want them to be blocked, just redirects. I can't change the 403 error page also because I don't want inaccessible directory listings to be redirected.

By the way, I use Debian and CentOS on my servers, so if I need to install anything, RPM and DEB are okay.

Thank you for your help.