From a performance only view, which would be the best way to block 30 IP addresses?
A) .htaccess file
or
B) PHP code in the file
+8
A:
If you are administrator of your server, I would use none of those, and would ban the IPs at the firewall level -- this way, nor Apache nor Apache+PHP will have to work.
If you're not admin ; well, .htaccess means only Apache, and no PHP to load/compile/execute ; I'm guessing Apache alone (i.e. .htaccess) should require less resources than Apache+PHP.
Another way of seing things is maintenance : if you need to add/delete IPs addresses from that list, what would the easiest way be ?
(In that case, I would generally bet for some PHP code...)
Pascal MARTIN
2010-01-19 00:09:29
Thanks, I am curious, would it be possible to write a PHP script that could add/remove IP's being blocked at the server firewall level?
jasondavis
2010-01-19 00:11:20
I suppose it would be possible -- provided the user than runs the PHP scripts has the privileges required to do that kind of action ;; and not sure the user that runs Apache has that kind of power... *(I have to admit I've never tried, actually)*
Pascal MARTIN
2010-01-19 00:12:54
A:
I agree with Pascal's answer. But the PHP code is:
$banned = array('129.168.1.1');
if(in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $banned))
{
die();
}
And the .htaccess is:
order allow,deny
deny from 192.168.1.1
allow from all
Just for the record.
Chacha102
2010-01-19 00:10:48
Yeah I use something like that now but I am thinking of doing it at a server level before PHP hopefully –
jasondavis
2010-01-19 00:12:54
Yeah, there would probably be a little more processing, but the basic elements are there.
Chacha102
2010-01-19 00:13:38
+1
A:
Why not block them at the hardware level (router, load balancer, firewall, etc)? - If its only a block of 30 and you don't need to update them often.
Mr-sk
2010-01-19 00:13:33
+1
A:
Hardware
or
Hardware + OS
or
Hardware + OS + Apache
or
Hardware + OS + Apache + PHP
Understanding the stacks should help indicate which will be the fastest.
Mike B
2010-01-19 00:19:02