htaccess + apache

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 10:40 -0400, CodeHeads wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 09:56:33 +0100 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 22:41 -0400, CodeHeads wrote:
> > > Have a quick question. Did not find what i was looking for on google.
> > > 
> > > Say if my document root for my virtual sites is /var/www/sites
> > > 
> > > Can I put the following .htaccess file in the document root to restrict
> > > access? Order allow,deny
> > > allow from all
> > > deny from 123.123.133.145
> > > 
> > > I know that I can use the httpd.conf file, but I am tring to do something a
> > > bit faster.
> > 
> > A bit fast in what way?
> > 
> > If you set up the access controls in httpd.conf and have "AllowOverride
> > None" then the web server doesn't have to check for .htaccess files for
> > every single access, and hence will perform faster.
> 
> Sorry Paul, I should have been more precise in explaining this :). I have some
> restricted directories already that use htaccess. So yes it is set to look for
> the htaccess file.
> 
> > Or do you mean faster to set up, so you don't have to reload the server
> > config?
> 
> Yes, you are right. Instead of using the httpd.conf file, and entering the ip's
> then restarting apache. I would rather have one file in the doc root that I can
> change. I think I explained that right. :)

I think it should work if you have the AllowOverride in the main
httpd.conf for this directory. You could always test it by banning one
of your own IPs.

Paul.