Blocking visitors that access by server IP address

Question

My Apache Server IP address is 192.168.1.100 and the Domain Name is test.local.

• If a user types in the URL, say "http://test.local", then they should be allowed.
• If a user tries to access "http:// 192.168.1.100" then they should be denied.

How can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

What you want to do is name-based virtual hosting, so something along these lines might get you started, I believe:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
  <Location />
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
  </Location>
  # other configuration for default host...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  # This is the one you would like visible
  ServerName test.local
  <Location />
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

(I'm in a bit of a hurry, so there might even by typos in there, sorry.)