When i set user agents blockade on in htaccess maker it puts this at the very top of the file before the rewriteengine on line. And on my server this then gets ignored.
If i put it under the rewriteengine on then it is works fine.
#42850 User agents block ignored
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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 31 March 2026 00:36 CDT
Monday, 30 March 2026 10:58 CDT
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Tuesday, 31 March 2026 00:36 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Thank you for reporting this! You're absolutely right — this is a bug. The blocked user agents rules use Apache's RewriteCond/RewriteRule directives, which require RewriteEngine On to be active. However, the .htaccess Maker currently outputs these rules before the RewriteEngine On line, which causes them to be ignored on most server configurations.
We've confirmed the issue and will include a fix in the next release. In the meantime, you can try this dev release which implements this fix and let me know if that worked for you.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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