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According to the blacklist docs:

Press the Submit button on the form and ExpressionEngine will add the contents of your Blacklist to the .htaccess file, blocking them from being able to access your site at all.

Just to clarify, is this a one-off event that only happens when the submit button is pressed or does EE write to the .htaccess file automatically every time the blacklist is updated?

Adam,

When you click Download ExpressionEngine.com Blacklist it as asks you Write Blacklist to .htaccess file? and gives you and update button. So no it is not done automatically.

Have you set-up your Blacklist to retrieved automatically via cron?

Hi John

Just to clarify:

Hitting the ‘update’ button after I have downloaded from EE,

OR

hitting the ‘update’ button after I have manually edited my blacklist,

triggers the htaccess file to be updated - is this correct?

Adam,

Yes on both counts. The update button after downloading the Blacklist is specifically for updating the htaccess file.

When manually editing the blacklist there is a check-box which asks ‘Write Blacklist to .htaccess file?’ before hitting update.