Secure Your Site (.htaccess)

One way to prevent unwanted access of your site is using the file .htaccess

Reasons:
– Restrict access to a known hacker / bot from accessing your site
– Allowing only certain IP addresses to view your site (while in development, for example)
– Allow only trusted individuals in your site (if your users IPs remain the same, because it’s safer)
– Banning people from a particular country (or any location unknown) to access your site
– Ban people from your site


Here are lines that can be added to .htaccess:

Remove access for specified IPs.

Only allow access to the mentioned IP class.