I am an htaccess newbie, please help! Even the tutorials are too difficult for me to understand.

I am webmaster of an Air Force site. We are trying to move our users away from the site I maintain and encouraging them to use our new Portal. I'd like to restrict users from viewing my web site unless they are coming from an Air Force Portal URL. At the same time, I do not want to closeout access to those users outside the Air Force who need access but cannot get access through the Air Force Portal. Hope this makes sense.

So in English it would be:

Allow "https://www.afportal.mil" (referring URL)
Allow army.mil (domain)
Allow navy.mil (domain)
Allow .gov (domain)
Deny af.mil AND redirect to "https://www.afportal.mil"
Deny .com AND redirect to "http://www.afpublic.com/"

Could you help me to translate this into real code PLEASE!?

Well, people don't actually come _from_ a URL, surely (unless you mean the HTTP_REFERRER, which is, in itself, data which is notoriously unreliable).

If you mean that you want to be able to prevent access to people based on where they are, by trying to identify the IP address of their machines, for instance, then that too is prone to problems such as deliberate (or indeed, incidental and unintentional) masquerading).

On the whole, wouldn't it b easier to put a password protction on your site and distribute the password to people you wanted to give legitimate access to? After all, it's the people, not the machines, who you want to block or allow, isn't it?

Hi,

I'm having a similar problem,
and am hoping someone can help.

I have a login page for my website,
the problem is that when my users login,
there's nothing stopping them from bookmarking
the page they logged into. Now when it comes to the
other pages on my site. they're sort of protected by
the frame that I inserted into my actual homepage, keeping
in mind that it's just classmates I want to restrict, so the
need for fort-nox is not needed. But I really want to make the
homepage accessible by a referral site (login page) only. If anyone
knows of all, or any means (easiest way hopefully) on how to do this,
it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Holmes

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22966

Cheers :)

vinod