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1. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hello folks,

   I'm trying to tackle comment spam on my blog and found this codex page : http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Editing_.htaccess_to_Deny_Access_to_-No_Referrer-_Requests which gathers all sorts of useful resources. However, the last line of the .htaccess example looks very weird : here's what I read :

   RewriteRule (.*) “http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/� [R=301,L]

   Can someone give me the corrected line as these characters must be wrong ?

   Thanks,

   dtc

2. jdunavin
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I believe that the character is supposed to be the caret ^ (Shift-6).

3. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Thanks, I'll try that :)

4. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Update > I think it should read like this :

   RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

   Would it be possible for the mods/admins to update the codex page ?

5. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Anyone, including yourself, can edit the Codex. You just need to register for a free account. That's the beauty of community-based documentation. But, don't worry, I've fixed it for you. Thanks for pointing it out.

6. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Cool, I did not know we could edit it too !
   Thanks for fixing it :)

7. NuclearMoose
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   There has been some "gibberish" introduced into Codex recently that has shown up on virtually all of the pages. It's a known issue and is being corrected as the errors are found.

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