blocking a specific computer... Options

[Melissa]

apparently, my dad's been a complete loser and snooping around my website. we have the same internet provider (since i'm at home) so i don't think blocking his IP would be ideal at the moment... is there a way to block specific computers from visiting your site?

[synapse]

You would have to edit the .htaccess file on your directory. (I'd make a backup too) and in the htaccess file, you would have to change the Authentication settings.

Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see the content behind this directive. If, instead, you have a machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.

deny from hostname.example.com

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To find the mahine name of his computer, go on his PC, go to the command prompt, if you don't know how to get to that, go to run > cmd.

After you are there, you should have the C:/ directory open, type in echo %computername% and press enter/return it should then give you the computer name, such as, mine is TCUNNIN-PC

[mipadi]

You would have to edit the .htaccess file on your directory. (I'd make a backup too) and in the htaccess file, you would have to change the Authentication settings.
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To find the mahine name of his computer, go on his PC, go to the command prompt, if you don't know how to get to that, go to run > cmd.

After you are there, you should have the C:/ directory open, type in echo %computername% and press enter/return it should then give you the computer name, such as, mine is TCUNNIN-PC

Couple points:

1. Blocking a computer by hostname is no different than blocking by IP, which the poster already suggested was not a possibility.
2. Your "machine name", in this case, is not the name of your PC in Windows per se; it is a hostname assigned to your computer, such as www.createblog.com.