pmkpmk - 9:36 am on Sep 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I followed this thread for quite some time since our server gets harassed by those "evil bots" as well. However, I couldn't quite decide to take action until the posting of jdMorgan which was almost a how-to.

However, having done this I run into the first trouble because my Apache 1.3 says:

Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden

Simply adding a "FollowSymLinks on" on top of the htaccess doesn't work.

Any advice?

On a sidenote: I found some packages like "Sugerplum" and "robotcop" which promise to automize some of the functions intended by this htaccess. Any expereinces with these?