Thanks a lot, it worked as you suggested. Set it up in .htaccess to avoid the server restart.
Rommel On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> wrote: > Look at Files and FilesMatch > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Rommel Sharma <rommelsha...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Googled for this specific scenario but could not come to a consensus on >> the solution so checking with this mailing list. >> >> I need to do the following: >> >> 1. Allow access to only a few web pages from only a few IP adresses. >> Its not a domain wide restriction but only to select few pages. >> 2. The web pages being requested could reside in jboss or in htdocs. >> Main requirement is to avoid hit to the app server for IP address check >> and >> make the decision to block or allow requests at the Apache httpd server >> layer itself. >> 3. If request is to be blocked a custom page need to be shown with an >> appropriate message. >> 4. The custom page to be shown for unauthorized access would differ >> based on the page requested for. >> 5. I considered configuring the <Directory ...> and .htaccess files >> but that does not seem to provide the detailed access control noted above. >> 6. Is it possible to make such changes and have them reflected >> without a server (apache httpd) restart? >> >> Thanks, >> Rommel >> I RTFM and STFW but as I noted earlier could not have a consolidated >> solution (did not look much in detail yet) so thought of posting to this >> group. thank you for the help in advance! >> >> >> > >
