Hi I want to block certain countries from visiting my site for this I have written a test.php page which test the ip of the user against a table and then take the decision whether to send the user to the site or back to the block message page... I am using this htaccess code Code: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*test\.php.*$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ test.php?var1=$1 [L] </IfModule> means, if the URL is not domain.com/test.php send the user to test.php page for checking his ip.... now when test.php page sends user back to the exact URL he puts to visit the page )($var1) the user is again redirected because the htaccess rule again matches... How can I prevent it from looping so that if a user is already checked for his IP he should not be checked again? my host doesn't support mod_geoip, and I can only use htaccess with mod rewrite.I dont want to make a 100 MB htaccess by manually defining ip ranges for these countries so want to do it with mod_geoip kinda method. any help is highly appreciated...