Panicschat - 9:30 pm on Feb 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have been reading through this thread and have found it to be extreemly interesting and useful. I particuarly like the helpful content from Superman, Toolman and Key_Master.

I have been mucking around with my .htaccess for some months, trying to block people who have been doing various neferous things like hotlinking, downloading my content to display on other sites and grabbing my entire web site.

Hotlinking is taken care of. I have a little seperate .htaccess in each sub directory of the root directory that reads as follows:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://mydomain.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://www.mydomain.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://myotherdomain.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://www.myotherdomain.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://www.myotherdomain.org/index.html/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://www.mydomain.org/newindex.htm/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg¦jpeg¦gif¦png¦bmp)$ http://www.mydomain.org/403.shtml [R,NC]

That works just fine. No problems with that at all. Note that it allows access to my pictures from both of my domains.

In my root directory I have the following .htaccess file. Obviously most of my neforous visitors are locals. Yes I am blocking out whole ISPs which will affect a huge number of visitors but that's okay, as it is part of my intention. I am working on reducing the number of Ip addresses listed by adding machine names that correspond to ip ranges. Trust me, that does work.

I have a couple of questions;
Is there a way to write this so that people do get to see the 403 error? Currently they don't see it.
I know I can use something like "deny from 61.95.30." but can I also use "deny from 61.95."? Note the second one just has two ip numbers.

Also, before I go, here's something useful for you all who are effectivly blocking out people who steal your web site content. Ever thought those people will just go to Google cache and steal content from there? Then this line in your HTML head will fix that;
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

ErrorDocument 403 403.shtml

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
deny from 61.95.30.
deny from 63.148.99.
deny from 64.12.183.
deny from 64.229.81.
deny from 65.92.21.
deny from 65.94.39.
deny from 65.95.181.
deny from 65.95.185.
deny from 128.250.6.
deny from 128.250.9.
deny from 128.250.15.
deny from 128.250.16.
deny from 129.78.64.
deny from 139.134.64.
deny from 144.135.25.
deny from 147.188.192.
deny from 195.239.232.
deny from 202.12.144.
deny from 203.40.140.
deny from 203.40.160.
deny from 203.40.161.
deny from 203.40.162.
....(many more of these starting with 203.)
deny from 204.83.211.
deny from 205.191.171.
deny from 207.44.200.
deny from 207.156.7.
deny from 207.172.11.
deny from 209.90.147.
deny from 209.178.220.
deny from 210.49.20.
deny from 210.49.21.
deny from 210.49.22.
deny from 210.50.16.
deny from 211.28.51.
deny from 211.28.96.
deny from 211.28.219.
deny from 212.95.252.
deny from 216.12.216
deny from 216.16.1.
deny from 216.218.129.
deny from .adnp.net.au
deny from .alphalink.com.au
deny from .comindico.com.au
deny from .csu.edu.au
deny from .da.uu.net
deny from .gil.com.au
deny from .iprimus.net.au
deny from .labyrinth.net.au
deny from .netspace.net.au
deny from .nsw.bigpond.net.au
deny from .optusnet.com.au
deny from .ozemail.com.au
deny from .sympatico.edu.ca
deny from .tmns.net.au
deny from .usyd.edu.au
deny from .vic.bigpond.net.au
allow from all
</Limit>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon
RewriteRule /*$ http://www.crimestoppers.com.au/ [L,R]