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overflowsith/firewall
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simple, configuration based firewall for laravel

v0.1.1(11y ago)31041PHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Feb 5Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Add the package to your composer.json file and run `composer update`:

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

Add `Overflowsith\Firewall\FirewallServiceProvider` to your `app/config/app.php` file, inside the `providers` array.

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`

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This firewall package can be use in the App::before filter

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

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

### Firewall status

[](#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

[](#whitelist-and-blacklist)

You can set an array of IP addresses with or without wildcards, for example

```
   '127.0.0.1',
   '192.168.*',
```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community5

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~4 days

Total

2

Last Release

4162d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8263b0eac7416003ba870f0bed58719066c2391739641596aece9072d13c3e87?d=identicon)[overflowsith](/maintainers/overflowsith)

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Tags

laravelblacklistfirewallwhitelist

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