[Resolved] Lightspeed and hosting provider - Fails

[brrr]

I am assuming this means directives like this in .htaccess will also fail to function under Litespeed:

BrowserMatchNoCase ^WWW-Mechanize BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase ^Xenu BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Y!OASIS/TEST" BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase "YebolBot" BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase "ZeW" BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase ^Zip BadRobot
BrowserMatchNoCase "ZmEu" BadRobot

<Files *>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=BadRobot
</Files>

That could mean some hassles.

[NiteWave]

The rewrite equivalence:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(WWW-Mechanize|Xenu|Zip) [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*(Y!OASIS/TEST|YebolBot|ZeW|ZmEu).* [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) - [F]

[brrr]

Thank you for that code NiteWave. Much appreciated. It will help out some users who relied on .htaccess under Apache to do bot-blocking.

[Morpheus]

Originally Posted by NiteWave

1)yes.if no "RewriteEngine On", RewriteCond or RewriteRule won't work and will be ignored. However, if .htaccess has no RewriteCond or RewriteRule, you needn't "RewriteEngine On".

2)I think the new way is more efficient and obviously. However, I haven't tested it so without hard evidence...

I think we almost got what we need but trying to be, I guess, backward compatable? This seems to fail at the if statements. Does this look right, or suggestions?

# Default to the mod_rewrite method, since it seems more efficient.
<IfModule rewrite_module>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{Request_URI} !\.(css|js|jpg|gif|png|tif|swf|flv|ico|cur)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

# If mod_rewrite is not loaded, fall back to mod_setenvif method.
<IfModule !rewrite_module>
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.css$" object_is_css=css
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.js$" object_is_js=js
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.jpg$" object_is_jpg=jpg
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.gif$" object_is_gif=gif
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.png$" object_is_png=png
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.tif$" object_is_tif=tif
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.swf$" object_is_swf=swf
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.flv$" object_is_flv=flv
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.ico$" object_is_ico=ico
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.cur$" object_is_cur=cur
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from env=object_is_css
    Allow from env=object_is_js
    Allow from env=object_is_jpg
    Allow from env=object_is_gif
    Allow from env=object_is_png
    Allow from env=object_is_tif
    Allow from env=object_is_swf
    Allow from env=object_is_flv
    Allow from env=object_is_ico
    Allow from env=object_is_cur
</IfModule>

[NiteWave]

tested your code in local lsws, it's working.

but I think the 2nd part
<IfModule !rewrite_module>
really not necessary. it adds extra overhead.
mod_rewrite is a very basic module and it's hard to imagine apache without rewrite module existing in any hosting provider.

[Morpheus]

It seems that Lightspeed is processing all IFModule statments. If the first IFModule statement is true, then it should gracefully exit without running the second IFModule routine, but it doesn't. Is there a way to accomplish this?

Also how do you create a rewrite rule that will replace this:

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Purpose of file: block any web access to files stored under
# the downloads_upload directory
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

[NiteWave]

I think need go through .htacess, since there may be other directives in the file.

A rewrite equivalent for "Deny from all":

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [F]

[Morpheus]

Originally Posted by NiteWave

I think need go through .htacess, since there may be other directives in the file.

A rewrite equivalent for "Deny from all":

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [F]

In the below example only, after the first IFModule statement is read it should exit before reading in the next IFModule statement but it doesn't. Is there a way to do this in the htaccess file?

<IfModule rewrite_module>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{Request_URI} !\.(css|js|jpg|gif|png|tif|swf|flv|ico|cur)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !rewrite_module>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>