Re: Restricting access to a website [message #174864 is a reply to message #174859] |
Wed, 13 July 2011 23:53 |
The Natural Philosoph
Messages: 993 Registered: September 2010
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Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(The Natural Philosopher)
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>> No, its just Jerry being dumb and stubborn as usual.
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>> On the basis that te OP wants to play in the PHP sandpit and not the
>> Apache sandpit the optimal and more than adequate solution is to use the
>> pre-loaded variables to examine the browser remote IP address and
>> display page material contingent on that.
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> Your view is as short-sighted as usual.
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>> Its a far more powerful and flexible way
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> Indeed, but it's also less efficient. The OP has to decide what's more
> important in his situation. If it's just about a simple IP restriction
> without a complex user management, then doing it on the Apache level is
> most likely the better way.
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>> , and is the sort of thing you
>> might use to say 'Vous etes en France, Pour la version en Anglais, ici->'
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> I know French, I just can't speak it … ;-)
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>> (You could aslo reconfigure your firewall to only allow physical IP
>> access from them:Sledgehammers and nuts)
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> How's that different from altering the Apache configuration?
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What?
Don't you actually KNOW?
> Micha
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