Question

I just want to allow only one ipaddress to access my twiki page.Rest of all i need to block from accessing the twiki page.Can this be done?

Can i leave the balcklist as balnk and put the ip adrress that i want to acces the page in the white list. Will that work?

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-- BhargaviMuppall - 01 Apr 2008

Answer

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There is lot of ways of doing what you want, based on:

1. Your Firewall configuration.
2. Your Web Server configuration.
3. Twiki configurations.

Who is best suited for the task, is upon three other things:

1. The needs of the problem.
2. Your familiarity with those tools.
3. Your concern about future changes.

Personally, I see no use of twiki as you require, but anyway, I would go upon the firewall configuration (in my linux-box, using iptables).

-- MarcoSilva - 01 Apr 2008

There is no firewall i am talking of. i just want a single IP address to acess my site and block rest all. How do i do that? I just had an option to put a single ip address in the white list and leave black list as blank. Will that work as i want? Basically i am trying to make use of BlackListPlugin. Please do respond. Thank you in advance.

-- BhargaviMuppall - 02 Apr 2008

No need to use the BlackListPlugin. You can use an Apache directive. If you are using .htaccess files in your twiki/bin/ and twiki/pub you can add this:

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 12.34.56.78

Alternatively, do these setting in the respective directory settings in the Apache conf file.

See more at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Apr 2008