.htaccess stopped working

near-perfect referer spam log stopped working

[doodlebee]

I was hoping someone here could give a girl some enlightenment. I had created an .htaccess file that was nearly perfect for my website, somwhere around 2 years ago. This sucker worked *great* - totally kickass - and my referer logs have been free and clear of spam for nearly the entire time I've had it on my site.

However, as of Augist 1, 2006, it has suddenly stopped functioning, and my referer logs are *nothing* but spam. The only change I made was in a subfolder (actually, a subdomain...) - where the subfolder's htaccess file was changed. But the main URL's .htaccess file has remained untouched.

Would anyone have any idea as to why it's just suddenly stopped functioning? For two years it's been awesome, and now it has completley stopped. I'm wondering if maybe I have some of the coding wrong or something?

If it helps, I also have Moveable Type and Wordpress set up (in two separate subdomains)...I wasn't sure if something there might have something to do with this, as well. I don't think so (since both have been running without an issue for some time now..) But I thought I'd throw it out there...

Anyway, here it is...just in case...

Well, crap - it won't let me post it - I'm getting a "post too large" error.

Well, I don't know what to do now...if anyone would like to take a look at it, please let me know. I don't think I can link to it (or can I?) But I'd love to know why this is happening...

[jdMorgan]

The fundamental question is, "What did you or your host change on the date that your code stopped working?"

For test purposes, remove or revert the code you changed, and if that does not help, then you can go to your host with your solid 'evidence' and ask them to find out and tell you what they changed.

Anything we might post here as an 'answer' would otherwise be pure speculation.

Jim