common elements for htaccess between sites

colak · 2013-01-13 08:36:35

Is there a way to have some elements of the htaccess in a .txt file (or other) and call it in the htaccess files in different sites within my TXD account?

Our sites are getting attacked by spam referrers and instead of repeating the task of adding Deny from on each htaccess file I am trying to find a way to ‘centralise’ this ban list.

Checking google revealed no suggestions but I might be using the wrong keywords.

Any help would be appreciated.

wet · 2013-01-13 10:04:02

You might want to try adding common elements to your main Apache configuration file instead of spreading them across directory-specific .htaccess files.

If you run Webmin on a Joyent SmartMachine, go to Webmin > Servers > Apache > Global configuration > Edit config files and choose “/opt/local/etc/httpd/includes/directory.conf”.

Add an entry there which would look a bit like so:

<Directory /home/myusernamehere/web/public>
Order allow,deny
Deny from 1.2.3.4
</Directory>

You better know what you do. There be dragons!

Do not forget to restart Apache after you made these changes as otherwise they won’t be applied to the current web server process.

colak · 2013-01-13 10:29:45

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately txd does not give me an option for Servers in Virtualmin. Since I posted here I found this post which I am experimenting with. I will post the results here.

>Edited to add. It is another dead end for me as I have no access to server/vhost config

Last edited by colak (2013-01-13 10:41:21)

colak · 2013-01-14 17:39:27

so… there is no other way I guess…

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common elements for htaccess between sites

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