Banning via htacces?

[Brett_Tabke]

Don't know who or why, but sew has basically been under siege for the last couple of days. 150-200k hits to cgi's since Friday. I've blocked their hosts via all my counters and what not.

How can I ban a host via htaccess? I know there is a way - I've done it before and I can't remember how it was done. It was simple. Anyone?

[Air]

Brett, HERE [engelschall.com] is the relevant documentation on how to do it - I tried it and could not get it to work on my server.

[Air]

oops sorry, had a mind melt, was thinking something more complicated ...

you can do it by just adding to .htaccess

deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx = the ip address to deny

[littleman]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} host.com
RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\*.* - [F]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111.222.333.444
RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\*.* - [F]

You could just drop these in - they will work on any domain without modification.

[littleman]

Air, I like that. Short and simple. Sometimes it is the simple ways of doing things that are the hardest to learn.

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks to both of you. I was thinking along Little's approach because I didn't remember Air's trick. I knew there was a deny/accept in there somewhere. I can't use mod rewrite over on sew, or here for that matter - not compiled in.