IIS htaccess rule converter only importing 1 rule

Question

I have a example .htaccess file (found here) with bad robots to block. Here\'s a small sample code block from that file:

#bad bots start
#programmed         


        

Answer 1

It's certainly choking on the \ and the carriage return. If you try the following you'll see it should import properly:

#bad bots start
#programmed by tab-studio.com public  version 2017.12
#1 new rule every 500 entries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 12soso|192\.comagent|1noonbot|zuibot|zyborg|zyte
 [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
#bad bots end

Having said that, you might consider looking at using Request Filtering & Scan Headers instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/security/requestfiltering/filteringrules/filteringrule/scanheaders/