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TheDA

03-20-2010 06:34 AM

Restricting access by IP in htaccess not working - any ideas

I have an admin directory restricted to my ISP host

This has worked great for months, now it doesn't and it locks me out.

From what I can see, when I confirm the host name being used, this has changed. I have added the new host name to the htaccess but still not working.

Depending on the service I use to check the ISP host name I get 2 different results, boith of these are added to the htaccess.

I can add the actual IP address to htaccess and it works, but why is host name not working?

What have I missed? Is this a cache issue somewhere do you think?

Code:

<Limit GET POST PUT>

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from .originalhostname.com

allow from .newhostname.com

</Limit>

nickutis

03-20-2010 06:52 AM

maybe your server see you only as IP and can't resolve it to hostname ?

fris	03-20-2010 07:16 AM

ya do it by ip address

arachnO

03-20-2010 07:38 AM

Use actual IP
A lot of networks are unnamed for Apache

TheDA

03-20-2010 07:45 AM

I'm guessing the changes they made to their hostname maybe aren't picked up by my hosts yet.

Thanks all.

fris	03-20-2010 07:47 AM

goto cmd prompt and find your ip

TheDA

03-20-2010 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fris (Post 16962727)

goto cmd prompt and find your ip

Thanks.

What do I do with it then?

TisMe

03-20-2010 08:06 AM

Enter allow from 000.000.000 <- your ip instead of the domain name.

TheDA

03-20-2010 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TisMe (Post 16962761)

Enter allow from 000.000.000 <- your ip instead of the domain name.

Yes that bit works, it's the hostname side of things that isn't. I was hoping to get that to work.

Bman	03-20-2010 10:30 AM

Maybe there is a third?

habibjr

03-20-2010 11:10 AM

is there any easy way to block ips by U.S. city or state?

TheDA

03-20-2010 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bman (Post 16963033)

Maybe there is a third?

I can't see why there would be.

TheDA

03-20-2010 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by habibjr (Post 16963091)

is there any easy way to block ips by U.S. city or state?

I've heard of people doing it, but I don't know how accurate it is.

rowan

03-20-2010 01:53 PM

It's possible that your ISP's reverse DNS isn't set up properly, ie your server cannot resolve 192.168.111.222 to something.newhostname.com.

It's a dodgy way of allowing access anyway, since it's a wildcard... anyone from your ISP is permitted to connect... I'd stick with IP only.

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