I am having trouble with blocking IP's via .htaccess
on apache, I have a small shared account

when i am editing the .htaccess file via ssh and pico do I just add the following to deny certian IP addressses



deny from 209.23.123.110
deny from 209.23.123.9


or do I have to go like this;

<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from 209.23.123.110
deny from 209.23.123.9
</Limit>

I have been editing the .htaccess filr in my public_html directory
do I have to add anything else to the file for this to work? or is it better to use a cgi-wrapper script ( I dont't have a script)

Or do I have to put it somewhrere else?


I have been checking everywhere on the net but most of it is pretaining to setting passwords and denying usernames

Great opportunity to show off you extensive knowledge!

The limit container isn't necessary, and "deny,allow" is the default order anyway, so you can just put:

deny from 209.23.123.110
deny from 209.23.123.9

...or if you want to block the entire subnet:

deny from 209.23.123

Any place that you know of that has a decent banned spider list for cloaking purposes (babelfish)?

OH I figured out my problem, I needed to Chmod the file to 755
works great now!!

command I ran in my FTP program
CHMOD:755:*.htaccess

just so everybody else knows