Every Time I deny an IP I get an internal server error. What's Wrong?

Okay, I've been getting comment spam on my blog.

So, I have tried to ban the IPs. The thing is that when I do my whole site goes crazy and it only displays a page that says an internal server error has occured.

If I replace the .htaccess file everything is okay.

Here is the error from the log:

What's wrong here? I have gotten these errors only when I modify my .htacess file.

Now I'm not too worried about the comment spam as every comment is moderated, but what is the problem here.

Skinny

 

It would be helpful to know how you are trying to block the IP to figure out what went wrong.

 

Oh,

sorry. I know little about server side of things. I go into Cpanel and hit IP Deny Manager.

Then I just paste in the IP and hit Deny (I think that's the button).

It then denies it, but it creates an error and my site becomes inaccesible.

Skinny

 

I don't use cpanel, but you mentioned that replacing the .htaccess file fixes the problem. Can you post what your .htaccess file looks like when it is "broken"?

 

Here it is

 

Okay, I see a problem on the very last line of that file. You have two items there, the first is "php_flag register_globals off" and the second is "deny from 203.177.64.155". The second part is probably what is causing the problem.

Move "deny from 203.177.64.155" which is at the very bottom of the file to directly under the last set of similar instructions.... to the line below "deny from 72.14.194.25". Then the end of your .htaccess would look like this:

 

Thank you Tflight. I never looked at the file. I guess the IP Deny manager was adding the deny line at the end of the file to bunch it with the list already made.

I threw in that other code and didn't realize that.

Thanks again.

Skinny

 

Great, glad it is solved. That is one of the reasons I don't use cpanel.