[thelist] 404 a Whole Sub-Domain

[Jon Molesa]

Answer 

1) Because IP's can be and are spoofed.

or

2) Because I'm paranoid. :-)

Basically the parking page confirms that a site exists at that address
even though I have 

deny all

in .htaccess.  The welcome.conf on Redhat is has priority over .htaccess
for no default index.  I want to override that.

*On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:40:59PM -0700 Brady Mitchell <mydarb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:40:59 -0700
> From: "Brady Mitchell" <mydarb at gmail.com>
> To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] 404 a Whole Sub-Domain
> 
> > I'm looking for a way to 404 a whole sub-domain.
> >
> > I'm setting up a webservice on the sub-domain for internal use.  I've
> > got traffic deny except for a particular IP in .htaccess.  I have a
> > default page setup in /etc/http/conf.d/welcome.conf as a parking page.
> > I either need to overide that, or just create an index.html that spits
> > out 404 headers.
> 
> I must not be understanding the problem properly. If you're denying
> access to all but the one IP address that you want to have access to
> this system, why do you need the additional 404?
> 
> Brady
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