library firewall

overflowsith/firewall

simple, configuration based firewall for laravel

Installation

Add the package to your composer.json file and run composer update:, _(*1)

{
    "require": {
        "overflowsith/firewall": "dev-master"
    }
}

Add Overflowsith\Firewall\FirewallServiceProvider to your app/config/app.php file, inside the providers array., _(*2)

Publish the package's config with php artisan config:publish overflowsith/firewall, so you can easily modify it in: app/config/packages/overflowsith/firewall/config.php, _(*3)

Usage

This firewall package can be use in the App::before filter, _(*4)

App::before(function($request)
{
    if (Firewall::isNotAllowed($request->ip())) {
        return Firewall::renderAccessDenied();
    }
});

Configuration

Firewall status

• disabled: every IP is allowed
• permissive: only IP addresses that are not in the blacklist are allowed
• enforcing: an IP must be in the whitelist and not in the blacklist

Whitelist and blacklist

You can set an array of IP addresses with or without wildcards, for example, _(*5)

   '127.0.0.1',
   '192.168.*',