Re: Allow or Deny from large numbers of hosts

Frank,

On 3/21/25 10:15 AM, Frank Gingras wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM Christopher Schultz 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     All,
> 
>     Is there a way to load a bunch of allow or deny hosts from a file or
>     other data-store? I have several dozen CIDR expressions and they will
>     need to change periodically, so it would be more convenient if I could
>     load them from at least a file on the disk and clean-up my config a bit.
> 
>     I suppose I could
> 
>           Include my-allows.conf
>           Include my-denies.conf
> 
>     And then use awk/sed/whatever to convert the lists of hosts into "Allow
>     from [host]" and "Deny from [host]" but less tooling would be more
>     convenient, of course.
> 
>     -chris
> 
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> Why not use a simple RewriteMap instead?

Thanks for the reply. How would I use a RewriteMap for this?

-chris