denying access via .htaccess

only allow localhost for one file

[max4]

.htaccess is indistinguishable from magic to me

and I was wondering if someone could help me use .htaccess to deny access to a particular file from everyone except localhost.

[jdMorgan]

How does localhost access this resource -- Is it 'included' as a local file into an HTML page or script, or is it requested by the server from itself using HTTP (e.g. using a script library to do a GET using an HTTP transaction)?

If the former, then the file does not need to be HTTP-accessible at all, and a simple unconditional 403 response to *all* HTTP requests for URLs resolving to this filepath will be all that is needed.

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Thanks,
Jim

[max4]

Oh sorry. It is requested by the server from itself using HTTP.

[g1smd]

Does it need to be accessible via HTTP?

[jdMorgan]

A RewriteCond testing %{REMOTE_ADDR} for NOT "localhost-IP" and NOT "my-LAN-IP" followed by a RewriteRule testing for the "path-to-particular-file" and making a null substitution with a 403-Forbidden response code would seem to be in order, then.

Jim