Deny All Access Except Yours (Only allow certain IPs) with Apache .htaccess

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Use this to ONLY allow certain IP addresses to access your website.

Apache 2.2

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Apache 2.4

# Require all denied
# Require ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your IP. If you replace the last three digits with 0/12 for example, this will specify a range of IPs within the same network, thus saving you the trouble to list all allowed IPs separately. Source

Please see the next rule for the 'opposite' of this rule!

Remember that for most rules you must have the RewriteEngine on rule in your .htaccess file!!!

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