title: htaccess allow,deny rules behaving strangely
body: <p>Long story short, I have a list of IP addresses I want to completely ban from accessing my site. When I configure my htaccess file like this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>order allow,deny
  allow from all
  deny from 123.456.789.012
  deny from 123.456.789.013
  [etc...]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...it doesn't work. Those IP addresses are still able to hammer my site. But when I comment out the "allow from all"...</p>
  
  <pre><code>order allow,deny
  #allow from all
  deny from 123.456.789.012
  deny from 123.456.789.013
  [etc...]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...then it works, in that I can see that NO ONE is able to access my site, and the traffic quickly drops to zero. The problem is, I only want to block those IP addresses, not everyone. What am I missing here?</p>