.htaccess problems

[philliph22]

Hello

I'm having some problems with my Plesk install, I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction. I've searched quite a bit and tried various suggestions but nothing has worked thus far.

I'm trying to restrict a directory by IP with an .htaccess file:

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from < IP >

Nomatter what IP you put in there is always a 403:

Forbidden
You do not have permission to access this document.

It does look the .htaccess file is being read, as if I put rubbish in there I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

It's as though the .htaccess file doesnt have deny permissions.

The error log blames server configuration.

thanks

Phil

 

[Alexey.Plotnitsky]

Hi philliph22,

Try to turn OFF nginx reverse proxy in server settings. While Nginx is on, it acts as a web client for Apache. So all requests come to Apache from same ip - the server's localhost.

 

[gmrweb001]

Better way is to do this in your .conf file:
<Directory /hidedirectory>
options -Indexes
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from XX.XXX.XX.XXX
</Directory>