blocing crtain domains from accesing our web site

[DoubleV]

hi guys,
i never do anything on the server side, but there's always first time for everything, isn't it?
we would like to be able to block users coming from certain domains from accesing our web site. they woudl just get a "permission denied" or any other type of message instead of being able to view any web pages.
can it be done and how?
thanks. --------------------------------------------------
Goals are dreams with deadlines

 

[Wullie]

Hi Val,

I am not quite sure if this is what you are asking for or not..

Order deny,allow
Allow from all
deny from domain.com
deny from otherdomain.com

You can either set this server wide or in a htaccess file.

If you are just wanting to do this on a few pages then you can use SSI conditional incudes to do it but that is a totally different way.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

 

[DoubleV]

Wullie,
thanks for the help.
they'd like the whole site to be blocked, so .htaccess seems to be they way to go.
so the next question is, i cannot seem to find one on our server, even though i am sure we have it (and i know we are running apache). i am looking in the root directory. where is my .htaccess file???

Valeria --------------------------------------------------
Goals are dreams with deadlines

 

[Wullie]

Hi Val,

You need to create the file if you do not have one.

Just open a text editor and enter the text above, then save as .htaccess

Now put it in the root directory.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

 

[Newposter]

You can also set firewall software so as to block certain domains, IP addresses, or range of IP addresses. Newposter
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