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How to Block a Countries IP’s, block of IP’s

August 5th, 2011

Once in a while you want to block all traffic from a country or countries. I use to think it was not possible till i was pointed to the following website:

http://www.countryipblocks.net/

It will create a variety of block lists (including .htaccess) based on what country you want to block from your webpage. This is great for security or just limiting your customer base.

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.htaccess – redirect from http to https, port 80 to port 443

August 11th, 2010

The following .htaccess rules will autoforward an individual from a port 80 (also the regular http) to 443 (also known as https://)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

Please, note that the .htaccess should be located in the web site main folder.

In case you wish to force HTTPS for a particular folder you can use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} somefolder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/somefolder/$1 [R,L]

The .htaccess file should be placed in the folder where you need to force HTTPS.

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.htaccess – redirect from http to https

February 23rd, 2010

The simplest code i have found so far to redirect from http to https is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Just place this in your .htaccess file and it should work.  The same principal can be used to redirect users from https to http with

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Finally to redirect a user from 1 port (any port) to another you could use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com:newport/ [R]

This will redirect from 443 to “newport”.

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.Htaccess – Password Protect a Directory

February 4th, 2010

To password protect a directory do the following.

First log into the hosting space using the command line. Once logged in run the following and record the required information.

pwd <– get the full path of the current directory, this is the [PATH]

Example output would be : /var/www/www.sogoth.com/web

Now run the following command:

htpasswd -c .htpasswd [username]

[username] is just a login name for 1 of the accounts you wish to access the password protected folder. You can have multiple users, but must run the command once for each user.

Example :
htpasswd -c .htpasswd exampleuser
New password:
Re-type new password:

Once complete go to the folder you wish to protect and create a new file .htaccess.

In this file add the following:

AuthUserFile [PATH].htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require user [username]
</Limit>

For my example it would be:
AuthUserFile /var/www/www.sogoth.com/web/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require user exampleuser
</Limit>


Now visit the website location and you should have a login screen. Type in the username and password and you should have access.

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