How to Ban an IP Address using .htaccess

By Ian Carnaghan

March 22, 2018

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If you do not want a certain person/IP Address to access your website you can add the following code to your .htaccess file

order allow,deny 
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
allow from all

In the above code replace the xxx with the IP Address that you would like to Ban accessing your website

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Ian Carnaghan

I am a software developer and online educator who likes to keep up with all the latest in technology. I also manage cloud infrastructure, continuous monitoring, DevOps processes, security, and continuous integration and deployment.