Already I have share few guides on .htaccess. Here is a quick recap:
How to Create .htaccess for WordPress Blog
How to Avoid Spam Comment in WordPress Blog Using .htaccess
Blocking a specific visitor from specific IP is pretty easy and you can do it in easy step, just follow this how to guide and block a specific user in few steps.
Step1: Log-in into cPanel by typing URL (mentioned below) and click on “File Manager” as shown below:
http://www.domainname.com/cpanel (replace domain name by your own domain)
Step2: When you click on “File Manager” (in step 1), it open a new window (as shown below), i.e, root directory of your domain.
Step3: Now select .htaccess file and click on “Edit” option in navigation menu as shown below:
Step4: After clicking on “Edit” option in navigation menu, it open a new window as shown below:
Step5: Now copy this code and paste this code (in step 4) in .htaccess file.
<Limit GET POST PUT> order allow,deny allow from all deny from xx.xxx.xx.xxx </Limit>
Here xx.xxx.xx.xxx is the IP address of the person you want to block. You can replace this with your visitor IP address.
Step6: When you paste this code (code you get in step5) click on “Save” button as shown below:
Step7: Congratulations, you have successfully block visitors from specific IP address using .htaccess
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Amit says
Useful tip but one problem is when you accidentally block your own IP, My internet connection uses a dynamic IP and auto generates a random IP address, every time I connect to the internet. So in these cases, it might not work
But when you want to block spammers from a specific region or country, this will help.
Anish K.S says
its better to download the htacces file, save a copy and edit it, upload.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Vivek Parmar says
Yaa Anish, its better to have a back-up of .htaccess before editing it otherwise you mess up all the things
Vivek Parmar says
Thanks for Stopping and Commenting here
Yaa for dynamic IP, there are issues and advised no to edit .htaccess but for spammers it is pretty useful