Htaccess Denying IP help

Hi there,

Is it possible to use:

HTML:

deny from adsl.tesco.net

within a htaccess?

Thanks

 

I'm pretty sure you have you use an IP Address or IP range as Apache (the web server) doesn't resolve the IPs before processing htaccess.

 

Damn, if I was to provide you an IP could you provide me with the range if that is possible? Thanks!

 

Is this correct:

deny from 83.104

will work exactly the same as

deny from 83.104.0.0/16?

Thank you

 

Post or PM the IP.

 

Yes it should; that's how I've always seen ranges formatted though I've never used a range directly in .htaccess. If your running cPanel with IP Deny Manager does the htaccess edit automatically if that makes you feel safer.

This might help a screenshot from cPanel showing how ranges work, the links don't go anywhere so I cannot get any more information.

View attachment 749

 

Thanks for that, im alright adding single IP's to htaccess manually. I think I will have to leave this one as the IPs in question are all varying right at the beginning so we would be denying anyone beginning with 70. for example

 

Are they registered members.. Even if not you can always ban IPs one by one in vBulletin options > User Banning Options. I'll use that over htaaccess just because it's easier IMHO.