Apache: Restricting permissions to access from local machine only

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Apache: Restricting permissions to access from local machine only

I am trying to setup a wiki that is only accessible from my own mac, not via the LAN or WAN, but ran into permissions issues. In order to not let others access the wiki, I cannot set everyone:Read only. But when I set everyone:No access, I cannot access the folder in Webserver>Documents>wiki at all. Even when I give the folder access permissions for my own account, I cannot access it with everyone set to no access. How can that be? Could anyone help me figure out how to set permissions to allow access for my user account only?

MBP 2.4, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 22, 2009 12:59 PM

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Nov 22, 2009 3:18 PM in response to current

Well I guess you should not create a wiki and/or don't turn on Apache. Or invite others over to look at the wiki(if created) on your machine.......

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xnav

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Nov 22, 2009 3:51 PM in response to current

Are you at a public IP address? Why would anyone on the WAN or LAN even know that you are running Apache?

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current Author

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Nov 22, 2009 3:55 PM in response to xnav

Hi, I was just wondering how to restrict access. It's more of a general inquiry. I understand your point but it's more about how I would restrict access to certain apps on my system run under Apache if I wanted to.

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xnav

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Nov 22, 2009 4:42 PM in response to current

Try looking [here|http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html].

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Camelot

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Nov 23, 2009 10:34 AM in response to current

The simplest method is to just add an appropriate Allow directive to your site's configuration file.:

<Directory "/">
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Deny from All
</Directory>

This tells Apache to only allow requests from Localhost (127.0.0.1) and deny anyone else.

This should be added to your site's config in /etc/apache2/sites/ (or /etc/httpd/sites/ if running Apache 1.3)

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