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Restricting PHP folder access to localhost and a range of IP addresses (192.168.0.*)

Hello,

I am running PHP/Apache on Windows and I need to restrict access on one of the folders under the www folder so that only localhost and the IPs in the range 192.168.0.* can access that folder and files under it.

I tried creating a .htaccess with:

allow localhost
allow 192.168.0.1
allow 192.168.0.2
allow 192.168.0.3
...
allow 192.168.0.255

Here are the questions:

What is the syntax to specify the range of IP rather than each IP

If a user can access the file and then that IP is no longer part of the IP range the browser seems to ignore that and still pull the file from the browser cache, not a too big issue but not very dynamic...

And last, instead of a nice simple error message like "restricted access" I get the cryptic and lengthy error message bellow. How can I change that?

Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, admin@domain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

arober11

Try:

<Directory /somFolder>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow From 127.0.0.1 192.168.0
</Directory>

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html

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