Excluding, or delivering different result to a particular IP

[Marcia]

Not quite sure where this question belongs, but this seemed logical to get an authoritive answer.

Is it possible to exclude one visitor with a static IP number from a site or pages, deliver a specific custom page to only that one, or redirect that one to another site or page on the same or another server?

Also, is it possible to deflect visitors coming via a link from one particular site, or deflect or exclude spiders from a particular search engine?

Will it be necessary to install a cloaking script for any or all of these, or is there another solution?

[littleman]

Yes Marcia, all that is very possible. There are also many ways to accomplish this too. It depends on what exactly you want to do. If you just want to exclude someone rr redirect an individual IP you could do this through a couple of apache directives. If you want greater control you may want to look at a cloaking script.

[Marcia]

>>a couple of apache directives

OK..there is, of course, no control over anything on the server beyond the root domain, but it is pretty full-featured hosting, and if I were to want any specific information I could ask the tech person I usually deal with (who happens to read these boards on occasion, BTW) and expect a pretty decent response.

I think I asked several questions bundled together, littleman. Let's just simplify and deal with the issue of one specific static IP number - either excluding or sending to another URL. Is this accomplished via htaccess, or is there another way? What apache directives, with the limitations of the the hosting in mind.

(For the sake of simplicity, I could just use robots.txt and exclude all spiders - the first issue is of more concern.)

An htaccess solution would be best.