Controlling access to /billing

BY IP address

Create (or Edit if exist) /var/www/html/billing/.htaccess and add following lines to the most bottom of the file:

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 friends_ip another_friends_ip

You can add multiple ip addresses, hostnames or diapazones.

Now restart apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#allow

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_access.html#allow

By Password

Create (or Edit if exist) /var/www/html/billing/.htaccess and add following lines:

AuthUserFile /var/www/html/billing/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
Require valid-user

Then you have to create .htpasswd file which contains user and password:

htpasswd -b -m -c /var/www/html/billing/.htpasswd yourusername newpassword

omit "-c" if file already exist.