htaccess : redirect user who use ip address to connect

Question

I need to install a second web application site on a web server and hide the fact that's the same server to user.

So far, I have a web app XYZ that you can access via XYZ.com and which is located on the server somewhere like /var/www/ I need to add another webapp ABC which is located /var/www/abc/ and only permit access to people using the ip address.

i.e :

www.XYZ.com  --> XYZ ( /var/www/ )
1.2.4.199 --> ABC ( /var/www/abc )

I've absolutely no clue how to do that with htaccess. Any help is more than welcomed !

Cheers

Answer 1

This isn't really a htaccess thing, more of a vhost setup thing. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

Answer 2

Place a .htaccess in /var/www/abc

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 1.2.4.199

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.XYZ.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

This should give visitors to www.XYZ.com a 404 (Not found) when they try to access http://www.XYZ.com/abc (R=404 is undocumented but should work)

(note untested, but you get the idea)