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.htaccess addition is making anti-spam give 403 forbidden

1 Nov 17, 2005 06:49    

I can't figure out what the problem is here. I'm still using 0.9.0.10 (I'm scared of change), and I wanted to .htaccess block some particularly heavy referrer spammers. So, I added this to my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} huli\.info [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} jewelry-boxes-etc\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anzwers\.net [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} skitasp\.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} riogranderestoration\.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} stopopts\.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} freepages\.kconline\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

It worked just fine and dandy. However, I noticed that when I went into my admin area and tried to blacklist a new referrer I was getting today, that I get a 403 Forbidden error when I actually try to remove/blacklist new referrers.

Am I doing something wrong here?

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2 Nov 17, 2005 14:56

Am I doing something wrong here?

Yes, you're using an obsolete version of this software. :D 0.9.1 has some improvements to reduce the amount of bandwidth that spammers can eat up. It also has some security updates, which are even more important. I would back your stuff up and do the upgrade.

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