You're right, my bad If the guy (you're blocking) always uses the same browser, maybe use a expr that's very explicit. RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; MSNIA; Windows 98)$' Or You can replace text with .*? . Is any character * is zero or more matches ? match up to the first occurance (non-greedy matches). RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE .*?; MSNIA; Windows .*?)$' -----Original Message----- From: Mike Jackson [mailto:mjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:41 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] How to deny access based on user agent - help > RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla' > RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.blah.com/ [L,R] That would also block most legitimate traffic as well - most browsers report that they're a variant of Mozilla. Better to match on something more unique to that user agent, like RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSNIA or RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 'Windows 98' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx