don't know whether it is good or bad idea, but did you try mod_rewrite to rewrite url requests from non friendly IPs?
Bernard On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 13:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any Apache geniuses have an idea about this; I want to create a strictly > limited access web server, available only to selected IP addresses. > >From the Apache documentation I understood that you could allow specific IP > addresses using the 'allow from' line. So I changed the access.conf file > from > > order allow,deny > allow from all > > to > > deny from all > allow from 141.245.104.215 > allow from 141.245.104.225 > ... > 28 more IP addresses. > > For a total of 30 allow from lines. > > Now the problem is that in the former case Apache flies but everyone who > knows the URL > can view the server and in the latter case, if you're not on the list you > don't get in but Apache > is a dog to run. It can take upwards of two minutes to load the index page! > Now even with my naive understanding of Apache this seems a tad slow. > Recommendations please, what am I doing wrong to make it run SO slow? > What is the best way to limit access to 30 non-consecutive IP addresses? > Any suggestions at all? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
