RewriteCond question

[Giljorak]

Earlier today I was going through my server logs and found more redirects to my 403.php error document than usual. These are some examples of the IP's I gave 403 errors to:

xx.xx.xx.135
xx.xx.xx.142
xx.xx.xx.137
xxx.xxx.133.139
xxx.xxx.125.xxx
xx.116.xxx.130
131.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.139.xxx.xxx
xx.xxx.143.xxx
127.0.0.1

After trial and error I found 2 typos that caused the problem:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^63\.240\.227\.11[2-9]¦12[0-7] [OR]

-should have been:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^63\.240\.227\.(11[2-9]¦12[0-7]) [OR]

--and

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^63\.240\.248\.12[89]¦13[0-9]¦14[0-3] [OR]

-should have been:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^63\.240\.248\.(12[89]¦13[0-9]¦14[0-3]) [OR]

By not putting parentheses around the final elements of the statements I effectively blocked all users that had a 112 - 143 anywhere in their IP address.

A few of those IP's belonged to google, hopefully they will forgive me and come back.

Yet another reason to watch what you type very carefully.

--EDIT I forgot to ask the question.

Is google going to come back?

[jdMorgan]

Giljorak,

Good advice, there... Check your work!

Google will come back as long as you have at least one incoming link to your site. Since they crawl a fairly large portion of the Web, they've seen all the possible problems you could imagine with Web site configurations -- and have developed rather forgiving approaches to error-handling as a result.

You could always "call" Googlebot back by submitting your home page to Google - See their Web site. While it's usually better to just let them find you, I think using their submit page (once) is useful when trying to recover from configuration errors like this.

Jim