Override Global Rule

[deanlaw Profile]

I have a global rule to block a particular bot that causes problems on 99% of my websites. However, there is a single client, who in-turn has a client that uses this bot internally and they need to have access to their website. Is there a rule that I can put within this one site's .htaccess file to allow requests from this bot, but continue to block it for everyone else?

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

Create a section for this particular domain in http.conf using this directive - VirtualHost and duplicate your global rules there, excluding the block. In this case your domain will apply all rules minus one.

Regards
Andrew

[deanlaw Profile]

Andrew,

I just tried that and the global rule is still being applied. Just to make sure that my virtualhost block was being picked up, I temporarily moved the blocking rule into my virtualhost block and it did block my request properly. However, when I have the blocking rule defined outside of the virtualhost block and not inside, the blocking rule is still blocking requests to that host when I access it.

[HeliconAndrew]

Maybe there's smth with www. or non-www... strange. Or you may try to move the virtualHost section on top of your config file...
Please, provide rewrite.log for the testing request. Logging issues described in FAQ

Regards
Andrew