“In earlier articles, I talked about restricting access to your
web server based on a username and password provided by the
user.”
“You can also restrict access based on the hostname or IP
address from which the user is connecting to your site. The apache
module mod_access provides this functionality.”
“There are three main directives that implement this
functionality, and they are typically used in combination, rather
than individually. I’ll talk about each directive, and then we’ll
look at some ways that you can combine them to have the desired
effects.”