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Chinmay Waghmare
Chinmay Waghmare

Reputation: 5456

htaccess block every IP/visitor and bots except google bot

I am learning htaccess. Is the following possible by using htaccess:

1) Block every visitor/IP to site.

2) Block all the bots except google bot.

RewriteEngine On
order deny,allow
deny from all

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (bingbot|Baiduspider) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [R=403,L]

Is the above htaccess right? Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1910

Answers (1)

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96454

Is the above htaccess right?

No, of course it isn’t right – because you are blocking all requests with

order deny,allow
deny from all

– so the Google bot won’t get access either.

You can do this by using a combination of SetEnvIf and Allow – see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html#allow, that has an example for exactly this.

(You’ll need to remove the Directory directive used in there, because that can’t be used in .htaccess files. But only those two lines, what is inside the directive you have to keep of course.)

Upvotes: 0

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