By default, when you want to block or allow some IP(s) from your website, you may simply do it as the following rules from .htaccess,
order deny,allow deny from all allow from 1.1.1.1 allow from 2.2.2.2
However, if you are using service like CloudFlare or other CDN service, you can not do like this as Apache do not understand your visitor IP.
To do that, you need to do like rules below,
SetEnvIf X-FORWARDED-FOR 1.1.1.1 allow SetEnvIf X-FORWARDED-FOR 2.2.2.2 allow order deny,allow deny from all allow from env=allow
If you need it for IP ranges or network block such as 1.1.1.0/24, you may do it like,
SetEnvIf X-FORWARDED-FOR "^1\.1\.1\.*" allow order deny,allow deny from all allow from env=allow