| Re: Restricting access to a website [message #174837 is a reply to message #174835] |
Tue, 12 July 2011 23:35   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 7/12/2011 5:19 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 7/12/2011 12:33 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>>> .oO(Graham Hobbs)
>>>>
>>>> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:29:08 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
>>>> >> You definitely need alt.apache.configuration. No need to do anything
>>>> >> to your php code.
>>>> > OK, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Or search the Web for tutorials. The keyword to look for is "HTTP Basic
>>>> Authentication".
>>>>
>>>> Micha
>>>
>>>
>>> This will still require user input (a password), and the the OP said ...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>>>> .... I envision hard coding their home
>>>> address's into my index.php?? Am not interested in any additional
>>>> typing by these three.
>>>
>>>
>>> So it would seem that the simplest solution that fits this bill is:
>>>
>>> if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $ipaddr1 AND
>>> $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $ipaddr2)
>>> {
>>> echo 'Sorry, not yet available';
>>> exit;
>>> }
>>>
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>
> If the OP already knows Php and would have to research Apache directives
> and using htaccess to determine what to do, how to do it, and then test
> it, this is by far the simplest solution to his immediate needs.
>
It's a couple of lines in his .htaccess, which would have readily been
given him had he asked in the right newsgroup.
And he doesn't know PHP very well, either - if he did, he wouldn't have
had to ask such an elementary question here.
There are many advantages to doing it in the Apache configuration, and
none for doing it in PHP code.
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