Protect apache pages by URL

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Published on 2013-10-27T17:22:58Z Indexed on 2013/10/27 21:55 UTC
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Is it possible to allow access to specific URLs only to certain networks? Basically, I would like to restrict access to the admin area only to the local network This area's pages are prefixed by /admin Essentially, I would like all /admin/* to be forbidden from public access.

Can apache handle such a case?

Thanks

UPDATE

Using your suggestions I came up to

 <LocationMatch admin>
    Order allow,deny
    deny from all
    Allow From 192.168.11.0/255.255.255.0
  </LocationMatch>

However, I get 403 even though I am on the network.

Additionally, if I put apache behind haproxy, is this going to work? Because the traffic will be coming from 127.0.0.1 to apache

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