Name

allow from

Synopsis

allow from host host ...
directory, .htaccess

The allow directive controls access to a directory. The argument host can be one of the following:

all

All hosts are allowed access.

A (partial) domain name

All hosts whose names match or end in this string are allowed access.

A full IP address

The first one to three bytes of an IP address are allowed access, for subnet restriction.

A network/netmask pair

Network a.b.c.d and netmask w.x.y.z are allowed access, to give finer-grained subnet control. For instance, 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0.

A network CIDR specification

The netmask consists of nnn high-order 1-bits. For instance, 10.1.0.0/16 is the same as 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0.