Wordpress access by IP

[Matt]

I would like to block users from visiting a page and its child pages unless they are from an internal IP range (IE: so I can control what they see in school and at home in terms of a wordpress site)

I can create a custom page template, so if some simple PHP would do it then I can do that, and set each page with the custom page template.

Any ideas? Otherwise Im going to have to create two separate sites sharing the same database.

[Jem]

One of the user management plugins allows blocking by IP - I was fiddling with it the other day. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was. Sorry to be absolutely useless, but at least you now know the functionality is there...

[suedenem]

Htaccess:

order allow,deny
allow from 123.
deny from all

...would allow access from the 123.xxx... range.  

You should be able to use the 'files' directive if you're using 'permalinks' and don't want to manually create the directories.

[Matt]

Htaccess:

order allow,deny
allow from 123.
deny from all

...would allow access from the 123.xxx... range.  

You should be able to use the 'files' directive if you're using 'permalinks' and don't want to manually create the directories.

Hmm, this sounds like a plan, having never used this kind of thing have you got a link to a more in depth introduction to it? What is the 'files' directive?
THanks!

[JasonD]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#files

But doesn't wordpress direct everything through one file? (Haven't used it in a million years, I may be wrong.) If so that wouldn't be a lot of use.

[Matt]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#files

But doesn't wordpress direct everything through one file? (Haven't used it in a million years, I may be wrong.) If so that wouldn't be a lot of use.

Think it all goes through index.php

[Matt]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/intranet-restriction-for-posts-and-pages/

This plugin, and ensuring I was putting in the right IPs based on our proxy details etc worked

[suedenem]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#files

But doesn't wordpress direct everything through one file? (Haven't used it in a million years, I may be wrong.) If so that wouldn't be a lot of use.

Note to self: either engage brain or don't post between tasks ;-)

I'd still use .htaccess personally (I'm not a fan of bolting on who-knows-what code into my sites unless it's been properly evaluated).  A simple rewrite based on permitted IP range(s) and URL structure that the OP would like blocking would do the job.