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How to prohibit direct access to my site with ip?

Posted August 7, 2020 238 views
UbuntuApacheIPv6Ubuntu 18.04

I have purchased a digital ocean droplet running Apache and have linked it with a domain example.com. Currently in some 11 digit IP address after type in the browser like 137.152.33.173 I can view the website and so can the public. My droplet is running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. How would I go about only allowing access when typed in example.com and www.example.com but just make the browser keep on trying but be unable to access directly using the IP address? Thank you.

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bobbyiliev August 7, 2020

Hi there,

What I could suggest is adding a Vhost for your website as described here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04

After that in your default Vhost, change the document root so that it does not match the document root of your site.

For example:

  • In your websites Vhost set the document root to /var/www/yourdomain.com and put your website files there

  • And in your default Vhost set the document root to: /var/www/html and put the default Apache index.html file there

That way if someone visits your domain name they would get the content from /var/www/yourdomain.com and if someone visits your IP they would just get the Apache default page from /var/www/html.

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

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  • johnaraon August 7, 2020

    thx but not this. Like try visiting this IP 137.152.33.173 in browser, not mine, and it does not load. I want something like this @bobbyiliev

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    • bobbyiliev August 11, 2020

      Hi there @johnaraon,

      Yes, this can also be achieved by adding a default Vhost. You can then add a deny from all directive directly in that Vhost so that if someone visits the IP they would get a forbidden message.

      Let me know how it goes.
      Regards,
      Bobby

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