My installation (Script Version: 3.1.4PRO) is using new_rewrite to protect my articles just fine. I'd like to grant Google Scholar access to my protected documents, which they suggest is by authenticating their crawlers permission with IP ranges 66.249.64.0 to 66.249.79.255 66.249.64.0 to 66.249.79.255. (1) Can the htaccess file be modified to do this? (2) I note that FTP will not allow me to modify the htaccess file in my document root.
1. Please have a look: http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13318&highlight=new_rewrite 2. Backup that file, then remove it (you should be able to do this from ftp) and create new one. Then you will be able to edit it.