Allow access from specific referer only on a specific time in .htaccess

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I am using this code in my htaccess file to block traffic from specific websites to my website and it works:

RewriteEngine On
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "example.com" bad_referer
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from ALL
Deny from env=bad_referer

Now what I want is set a time for this code, for example, visitors from a specific website are only allowed to visit my website from 08:00 till 17:00

I tried this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >0800
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <1700 
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer " example.com " bad_referer
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from ALL
Deny from env=bad_referer

But does not seem to work, visitors are still blocked between the set time stamp

Thanks

Robert

.htaccess mod-rewrite apache
1 Answers

You can't use SetEnv with RewriteRule as these two directives are part of two different apache modules. You can use mod-rewrite to achieve what you want to :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >=0800
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <=1700
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [R=403,L]
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