block access to a site from all but one ip address

steve51184 · 12-10-2008, 08:37 PM

how can i block access to a site (or rather a folder on my site) from all but one ip address AND have them sent to another site/html file on my server

i also want to do this via .htaccess?

so far i have this but it doesn't work as rather then people getting sent to another page they get an "Internal Server Error" message

Code:

ErrorDocument 403 http://domain.com/some-page-you-want-them-to-get-sent-to.html
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from my-ip-here

so for example if someone goes to mydomain.com/myfolder i want everyone but me to be sent to mydomain.com/somefolder/

jhwilliams · 12-10-2008, 09:10 PM

This is sort of some mangled pseudo code but might help stear you in a functional direction :-) I adapted it from a spammer redirect clause in my main .htaccess:

Code:

# set the okay variable
SetEnvIfNoCase %{REMOTE_HOST} MYREMOTEHOST okay=1
RewriteCond okay not equal to 1
RewriteRule ^(.*) /some-file.html [R=301,L]

steve51184 · 12-10-2008, 09:14 PM

not really sure what that does but i don't think it's what i'm after.. can you explain what it does please