How can I prevent visitors from accessing my site by IP? For example, my website uses IP 1.2.3.4, when they access http://1.2.3.4 directly, I want to redirect them to www.mywebsite.com or show them an error message.
I'm using Apache 2.2. Thanks!
How to disable IP access
apache-2.2
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Best Answer
LazyOne pointed out that you can do this with
mod_rewrite(rewrite your IP to your domain name - there are lots of questions here that deal with writing rewrite rules).I don't really see the value of doing this: Everyone accesses your website by IP address (after a DNS lookup turns your name into an IP), so the only real difference is what shows up in the
Host:header, and you'll eat an extra HTTP request when the browser follows the redirect which makes things marginally slower.If you need specific values in the
Host:header for some reason though the rewrite rule solution will work for you.