The IP Deny Manager allows you to prevent an IP address, domain name, or block of IP addresses from accessing your website. If someone is using a lot of your bandwidth, posting malicious content, or should not be allowed to access your site for another reason, you can prevent them from doing so in the IP Deny Manager.
- FINDING OUT VISITOR'S IP ADDRESS :-
Using the web statistics tools, one can find more information on their visitors. We suggest going to cPanel and clicking the Latest Visitors icon. This tool will show the Host information of visitors; it could be an IP address or a domain name.
- HOW TO BLOCK THE IP ADDRESS OR DOMAIN
To deny access to an IP or Domain:
1. Login to the cPanel and click IP Deny Manager,in Security section.
2. Please enter the IP address or domain name that you wish to deny in the box to the right of IP Address or Domain.
3. Click the Add button.
- HOW TO UNBLOCK THE IP ADDRESS
1. Login to the cPanel and click IP Deny Manager,in Security section.
2. At the bottom, under Current IP addresses being blocked, click the red X icon under the Remove column and on the confirmation page click on Remove IP.
- DENY ALL
You can also set an option for deny from all, which will deny everyone.
This must be done by coding your .htaccess file as follows:
deny from all
allow from 12.34.567.89
allow from 123.345.56.678 #My IP Address
NOTE : It is possible to block access to yourself accidentally by using this method.
See the article on How to edit your .htaccess file for generic instructions that apply to all .htaccess changes.
