Title: Blocking Bad Bots
Last modified: March 1, 2024

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# Blocking Bad Bots

 *  Resolved [Nitin Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glamsham/)
 * (@glamsham)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/)
 * Hello,
 * I have been facing issues due to bad bots. We have added a list to block bad 
   bots in htaccess but someone informed me that litespeed does not read/consider
   htacccess.
 * Kindly guide

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 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467717)
 * only if you are using OpenLiteSpeed, LiteSpeed Enterprise will read htaccess 
   as Apache does
 *  Thread Starter [Nitin Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glamsham/)
 * (@glamsham)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467789)
 * Oh, in that case kindly suggest an alternative. As most directives are from htaccess
   including redirects, etc. Please guide.
 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467791)
 * You are using OLS?
 * and what’s your rule of blocking?
 *  Thread Starter [Nitin Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glamsham/)
 * (@glamsham)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467796)
 * Yes, I am using OLS. Should I share the content of hta here?
 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467803)
 * you can carry it out over by report number , please go to Toolbox -> report -
   > click “send to LiteSpeed”, then share me the generated report number , it’s
   8-letter upper case string
 *  Thread Starter [Nitin Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glamsham/)
 * (@glamsham)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467804)
 * **TCLKLAIF**
 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467806)
 *  from report , you are running on LiteSpeed Enterprise , all htaccess content
   should work as it should.
 *  Thread Starter [Nitin Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glamsham/)
 * (@glamsham)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17467882)
 * I forwarded your response to my web host – that we are using LSE, however, they
   are still claiming that it is OLS!!!
 * Are we missing some setting? We are using webuzo panel.
 * Kindly guide
 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17468005)
 * even it’s OLS , the `rewritecond` and `rewriterule` directives are supported 
   as well.

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 * Last reply from: [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-bad-bots/#post-17468005)
 * Status: resolved