Hello list, I have spent half of the day but no success. apache gurus can help me out. The Rewriterules are working well in my .htaccess file. As I have multiple virtual hosts I like to place the common rules in httpd.conf to get a performance bonus. Here are the rules I have in .htaccess `````````````` RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR] -- other rules------ RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L] ````````````````````````` So I have copied these working .htaccess rules in a file called blacklist.conf Now in httpd.conf I have added the file as ````````` Include /etc/apache2/blacklist.conf ````````````````` Restarted the apache and no error message. I have also deleted those rules from .htaccess BUT wget is successful. It was not successful when the configuration was in .htaccess. I have found during google search that the Rewriterules are different in httpd.conf than .htacces I have also tried by putting "/" after the "^" but nothing was successful far. Could any one please give me a clue ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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