NAME

Apache::AccessLimitNum - Limit user access by number of requests

SYNOPSIS

#server config or .htaccess

#use any authentication module
AuthName SomeRealm
Auth[DBM]UserFile /path/to/password/file

PerlAccessHandler Apache::AccessLimitNum
PerlSetVar        AccessLimitNum  100
PerlSetVar        AccessLimitFile /path/to/limit/file

<Limit GET>
require valid-user #or some such
</Limit>

DESCRIPTION

Decide if an authenticated user has exceeded an access limit for the requested realm, if so, forbid access.

AccessLimitFile is a dbm file consisting of username = number value pairs. This file must be writeable by httpd server process.

SEE ALSO

Apache(3)

AUTHOR

Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>