I'm getting a loooot of hits from 192.17.240.28 (MQbot) So, I placed this line in my .htaccess file deny from 192.17.240. But I STILL getting all those hits from 192.17.240.28 ?? What's wrong ? Below my complete .htaccess: It first stop image hotlinking, that looks like it's working even the nohotlink_large.gif image never show up if hotlinking ... Just broken image. Anyway, my problem is to block spam ip's, pls H E L P! ------------------------------- RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?hotlib\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/hotlinking/nohotlink_large.gif [L] # RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F] # Block crawler boot that gives huge hits on our server deny from 192.17.240. I now also added this line to .htacess: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MQbot [OR] This is a line from my logfile: ------------------------------ 192.17.240.28 - - [09/Mar/2007:22:53:21 -0500] "GET /products1.php?id=16464 HTTP/1.1" 403 - "http://www.hotlib.com/all_programs.html" "MQbot http://metaquerier.cs.uiuc.edu/crawler" Since I have that deny line, should I still SEE any access from that IP in my logfile, or ?
Try this order allow,deny deny from 192.17.240. allow from all and this should work If not let me know and I might have some more suggestions for you.