Mitchell Krog

Must be something else wrong with your setup. The blocker won't block robots.txt. I run this on both Apache and Nginx servers and the robots.txt handles the initial instruction to...

Need to see the httpd.conf and vhost config's to be able to see whats going on.

Interesting attack string that, what version of Apache are you running and what version of the blocker? That error you get shows a version conflict.

Thanks @davcpas1234 `^\W` seems to give a good clean match and `{` shouldn't actually be in any domain strings. I will add this, can you test?

@davcpas1234 added in https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker/commit/d12edf07c8098ff2c759c0eeff2f569779887edb can you please test.

Thanks for testing David @davcpas1234 we will have to run some more regex tests and try find a good catch for this.

@davcpas1234 can you test this regex on your server? https://regex101.com/r/euluSl/1

What versions of Apache?

> Apache version: Apache/2.4.46 the only thing that can be wrong is that your ``` and ``` structure has been broken higher up or lower down making the blocker (and...

> > > Apache version: Apache/2.4.46 > > > > > > the only thing that can be wrong is that your ` and ` structure has been broken higher...