Need Help Banning Domains Via Htaccess

Okay, long story short is I received a message from one of my advertisers saying a couple sites were more or less scraping my content, which lead to a hijacking of an iFrame and they shut down my ads because I didn't meet the audit percentage thanks to the iFrame thinking the bad domains were my domain.

They've restored them, but asked that I ban the bad domains so they can't keep doing it.

I'm using Wordpress and after doing some research online, I added this snip of code to my htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} aolsearch\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} particlenews\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} renoun\.io [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} top1-seo-service\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} unblocksit\.es [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]


I just copied and pasted that into the htaccess file. Yet, I noticed that I'm still getting visits from some of those sites.

Am I missing a step?

 

Try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*aolsearch\.com\
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*particlenews\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*renoun\.io\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*top1-seo-service.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*unblocksit\.es\ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

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You can replace https? with "http(s)?" or simply "http://"

The [NC] code means "No Case", meaning match the url regardless of being in upper or lower case letters.

OR means "Or Next", as in, match this domain or the next line that follows.
You had on the that line [NC,OR], where-as on the second to last line you had [NC]. The above code should work.


Alternatively, if you can check the logs and see the IP addresses of above domains

order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0.1
deny from 127.0.0.2
deny from 127.0.0.3
allow from all

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Replacing the above IP's respectively.

 

Localnode reply was correct, you could use these rules as well a bit more simplified;

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?aolsearch.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?particlenews.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?renoun.io.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?top1-seo-service.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?unblocksit.es.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

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