title: .htaccess - RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters
body: <p>I'm using .htaccess to block some bad request to my site. Everything worked as expected on my local server(XAMPP) but when I uploaded it to the host(shared) I got this error: <code>RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters</code></p>
  
  <p>Here is the code that's in my .htaccess</p>
  
  <pre><code>ServerSignature Off
  Options -Indexes
  
  RewriteEngine On
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(HEAD|TRACE|DELETE|TRACK|DEBUG) [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]
  
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|clsh ttp|loader) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (&lt;|&gt;|'|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (;|&lt;|&gt;|'|"|\)|\(|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%28|%3C|%3E|%00). *(libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|HTTr ack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract| grab|miner) [NC,OR]
  
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/\*\ HTTP/ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} etc/passwd [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} cgi-bin [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (%0A|%0D) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?\ HTTP/ [NC,OR]
  
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*);(.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)\"|\(|\)(.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=http:// [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=(\.\.//?)+ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=/([a-z0-9_.]//?)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=PHP[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12} [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\.\./|\.\.) [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\: [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\: [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} https\: [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=\|w\| [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)/self/(.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)cPath=http://(.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\&lt;|%3C).*script.*(\&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&lt;|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\&lt;|%3C).*iframe.*(\&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&lt;|%3C)([^i]*i)+frame.*(&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code[^(]*\([^)]*\) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|&lt;|&gt;).* [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (NULL|OUTFILE|LOAD_FILE) [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\./|\../|\.../)+(motd|etc|bin) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (localhost|loopback|127\.0\.0\.1) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&lt;|&gt;|'|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} concat[^\(]*\( [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^a]*a)+ll([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (;|&lt;|&gt;|'|"|\)|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%3C|%3E|%00).*(/\*|union|select|insert|drop|delete|update|cast|cre ate|char|convert|alter|declare|order|script|set|md 5|benchmark|encode) [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (sp_executesql) [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]
  
  &lt;FilesMatch "^(install\.php|setup\.php|wp-config\.php|config\.php|configuration\.php|php\.in i|php5\.ini|bb-config\.php|db.php)"&gt;
  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  Options -ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .php .pl .py .jsp .asp .htm .shtml .sh .cgi
  AddType text/plain .pl .cgi .php
  &lt;FilesMatch "\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|htm|shtml|sh|cgi)$"&gt;
  ForceType text/plain
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've removed the trailing spaces and the comments. Still get this error.</p>