Order, Allow, and Deny
So far we have dealt with potential
users on an individual basis. We can also allow access from or deny
access to specific IP addresses, hostnames, or groups of addresses
and hostnames. The commands are allow
from
and deny
from
.
The order in which the allow
and
deny
commands are applied is not set by the order
in which they appear in your file. The default order is
deny
then allow
: if a client
is excluded by deny
, it is excluded unless it
matches allow
. If neither is matched, the client
is granted access.
The order in which these commands is applied can be set by the
order
directive.
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