.htaccess allow localhost problem

Question

Here is the situation...

I have a cron job scheduled to run that is used to backup my database. Because of the way php is installed, I\'m having to use lynx to hit t

Answer 1

Require local

The local provider allows access to the server if any of the following conditions is true:

• the client address matches 127.0.0.0/8
• the client address is ::1
• both the client and the server address of the connection are the same

This allows a convenient way to match connections that originate from the local host:

Require local

Answer 2

Use the order the other way around, ie:

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1

Answer 3

Leo's answer solved my issue. This is what I have set up so I can block direct access to images:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<Files ~ "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|pdf|txt|bmp|mp4|mov|ogg|wmv|webm|flv|mpg|mp2|mpeg|mpe|mpv|m4p|m4v|mp3|wav|acc|oga|m4a)$">
   order deny,allow
   deny from all
   Require local
   allow from all
</Files>
</IfModule>

I didn't want to type out the ip, incase the local ip changed later

Answer 4

Try to add .htaccess file in your /assets/ folder with this content:

Options +Indexes
# or #
IndexIgnore *

This way you will see your folder empty in browser.

Answer 5

None of the answers here allowed me to access http://localhost:8888/ until I added this:

allow from localhost

So in my case this is my entire .htaccess file:

order deny,allow
deny from all
# my IP
allow from xx.xx.xx.xx (use your own IP address here)
# Local development
allow from localhost

The # is a code comment. This file allows only me to access the site from my browser online (the IP) and locally from localhost.

Remember, the order matters when you use order deny,allow. You put the deny ones first in your file and then your allows below that.