How to allow only one user agent .htaccess?

Question

I searched all google and I really need to know how to allow only one user agent on .htaccess?

All I have found is how to do this on a dedicated or private server.

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Muktadir miah Aug 27 '12 at 13:19

1 answer

Jon lin · Answer 1 · 2012-08-27T17:02:51+0000

If the user agent you want to allow is: Lynx/2.8.8dev.12

Then you need these rules in the htaccess directory that you want to restrict:

 RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !Lynx/2\.8\.8dev\.12 [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Every other user agent is banned from 403.