NAME

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

SYNOPSIS 

 #server config file


 PerlModule Apache::AccessLimitNum


 #access control directives


 #use any authentication module
 AuthName SomeRealm
 Auth[DBM]UserFile /path/to/password/file
 
 PerlAccessHandler Apache::AccessLimitNum::handler
 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

AUTHOR

Doug MacEachern