Protect apache pages by URL

Question

Is it possible to allow access to specific URLs only to certain networks? Basically, I would like to restrict access to the admin area only to the local network This area's pages are prefixed by /admin Essentially, I would like all /admin/* to be forbidden from public access.

Can apache handle such a case?

Thanks

UPDATE

Using your suggestions I came up to

 <LocationMatch admin> Order allow,deny deny from all Allow From 192.168.11.0/255.255.255.0 </LocationMatch> 

However, I get 403 even though I am on the network.

Additionally, if I put apache behind haproxy, is this going to work? Because the traffic will be coming from 127.0.0.1 to apache

UPDATE 1

Correct directive is as follows

 <LocationMatch admin> Order deny,allow deny from all Allow From 192.168.11 </LocationMatch> 

However, the problem with the proxy in front of apache is not handled by the above Is there any way to overcome it?

Answer 1

As documented in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html, this is trivially done inside a Directory container as follows:

<Directory /your/document/root/admin> Order allow,deny allow from your.internal.network deny from all </Directory>