WolfHawk - 6:29 am on Mar 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hello everyone...

I'm new to both this forum and perl & cgi scripts. I've been doing a lot of late night studing to learn it all quickly but it's just not possible to learn what I need to know in the short amount of time I have.

To make a long story short and to the point, I'm setting up my first web site and while searching for information about keeping nasty bots away from my site, I found this forum.

The information and knowledge I've come across in this thread is spectacular however, when I added the rewrite script I found here to my current .htaccess file I discovered that while it does a great job at keeping nasty bots away and provides me with an easy way to ban things not only by browser and name, but by IP address also, for some unknown reason every time I click the submit button on any of my online submition forms I get a 403 error message.

This is the only problem that adding rewrite rules appears to be causing. I went through a process of elimination by removing each rewrite rule one at a time until I only had the

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

portion left and I still kept getting a 403 error message every time I clicked on the submission button on any of my forms. Once I removed the remaining section of the rewrite script, my forms began functioning again.

Can any one help me out with this?

For your information when I first went into my .htaccess file I found the following content already in it which I'm aware was already brought up in this thread but I couldn't find any responce to the previous similar inquiry from veenerz...

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.?* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.mydomainname.com
AuthUserFile /the /path/to/a/file.here
AuthGroupFile /and/the/path/to/another/file.here

The rewrite script was easy for me configure and use but this "mod_access" stuff with order deny, allow etc... I just can't understand or figure out.

Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Wolf