Banning viewers from Website

[imported_Silo]

I was wondering if anyone uses Hostica.com. I recently got my first domain, and is there any way to ban certain people from viewing it by means of using their IP address. Any insight will be appreciated.

 

[AnyMal]

dunno

 

[kamper]

Are you allowed to run any active content? With a language like php you could easily pick up the ip addresses and short-circuit a page.

I don't know about this but maybe .htaccess files have something for ip filtering.

 

[Nohr]

In my webhosts cPanel there's the "IP Deny Manager" which does what you're wanting. Provided you have access to cPanel..

 

[razor2025]

you can easily use PHP to deny people from getting content. Although.. if they use modems or PPPOE DSL, then they'll always a new IP everytime they log-on. (Unless you want to ban a whole set of IP that belongs to that ISP). I think log-in system with PHP would be a good way to restrict access.

 

[skyking]

If you are talking some sort of organized access restriction, then you can do it through php as suggested. If you jsut want to ban a few IP's, then creating an .htaccess file is the easy way to go.
I've seen huge .htaccess files for banning large ranges of third world IP's from U.S. e-commerce sites. Those ranges were known for being the source of credit card fraud.