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Using the IP Deny Manager to manage access to your website
By default, your website becomes visible to all
people browsing the Internet. Typically, large websites running forums, blogs,
ecommerce activities, etc. are prone to abuse from spammers, people posting
malicious content, etc., causing disruption of website services. The most
effective method of dealing with such nuisance is to deny access to your website
from such mischief mongers.
Using AW GRUP's IP Deny Manager
tool within your Web Hosting Control
Panel, you can easily control access to your website based on the visitor's IP Address.
Moreover, you may deny access from all IP Addresses of a particular block of IP
Addresses, if you are receiving constant abuse from the entire range of IP
Addresses.
Follow the process listed below to block/allow access
to your website based on IP
Addresses:
- Login to your
Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased
this hosting package.
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know how >>
- In the search
results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the Order
Details View.
- Click on
Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
- In the Website
Management interface pop-up that follows,
go to Manage Website -> IP Deny Manager,
if you have a Windows web hosting packageor
go to Manage
Website -> Web Server Manager -> IP Deny Manager, if you have
a Linux web hosting package
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From this interface, you may either restrict access to your website or allow previously
blocked IP Addresses to access your website.
a. Restricting Access to your website - You may mention either one or
more individual IP Addresses, or entire Blocks of IP Addresses on
individual lines.
Examples
i. If you wish to block a single IP Address, simply input the same in the
textbox as
1.1.1.1
ii. If you wish to block multiple individual IP Addresses, then you may
mention them on separate lines
2.2.2.2
3.3.3.3
iii. If you wish to block an entire range of IP Addresses, then you may
mention them as
4.4.4.*
5.5.*.*
6.*.*.*
IMPORTANT
1. Use extreme caution when deciding to deny access to entire range of IP
Addresses, as you might end up denying access to your genuine visitors.
2. IP Address of the type *.*.*.* is not allowed.
b. Allowing Access to your website - If you wish to enable access to a
previously blocked IP Address, then you need to simply select that IP Address
in the textbox and press the Delete key on your computer's keyboard.
- Clicking on the Submit button would save all your settings.
IMPORTANT
In order to complete the action in case of Linux Hosting, the Web
Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts affect other services running
on the Server. In order to avoid this, the Server has been scheduled to
restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, the changes might take upto 20
minutes to be effective.
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