How to create IP blacklist in Symfony2?

Question

Yes, I know there\'s Voter tutorial in cookbook. But I\'m looking for something slightly different. I need two different layers of blacklisting:

1. deny certain IP to

Answer 1

For site-wide IP restrictions it's best to handle them at the apache level, so your app does not even get hit by the request. In case you are trying to keep out a spammer, this way you don't waste any resources on their sometimes automated requests. In your case, writing the deny rules to the .htaccess file would be appropriate. In larger setups you can also configure a firewall to block specific IPs so those requests don't even hit your server at all.