diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html
index e4fc7d5340..20c2c03bc9 100644
--- a/Documentation.html
+++ b/Documentation.html
@@ -3183,6 +3183,35 @@ ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /%7Euser/phpmyadmin /mirror/foo
 <p> The MySQL server's privilege tables are not up to date, you need to run
 the <tt>mysql_upgrade</tt> command on the server.</p>
 
+<h4 id="faq1_42">
+    <a href="#faq1_42">1.42 How can I prevent robots from accessing phpMyAdmin?</a></h4>
+
+<p>You can add various rules to <a href="#glossary"><i>.htaccess</i></a> to filter access
+based on user agent field. This is quite easy to circumvent, but could prevent at least
+some robots accessing your installation.</p>
+
+<pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+
+# Allow only GET and POST verbs
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^(GET|POST)$ [NC,OR]
+
+# Ban Typical Vulnerability Scanners and others
+# Kick out Script Kiddies
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(java|curl|wget).* [NC,OR]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(libwww-perl|curl|wget|python|nikto|wkito|pikto|scan|acunetix).* [NC,OR]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(winhttp|HTTrack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract|grab|miner).* [NC,OR]
+
+# Ban Search Engines, Crawlers to your administrative panel
+# No reasons to access from bots
+# Ultimately Better than the useless robots.txt
+# Did google respect robots.txt?
+# Try google: intitle:phpMyAdmin intext:"Welcome to phpMyAdmin *.*.*" intext:"Log in" -wiki -forum -forums -questions intext:"Cookies must be enabled"
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(AdsBot-Google|ia_archiver|Scooter|Ask.Jeeves|Baiduspider|Exabot|FAST.Enterprise.Crawler|FAST-WebCrawler|www\.neomo\.de|Gigabot|Mediapartners-Google|Google.Desktop|Feedfetcher-Google|Googlebot|heise-IT-Markt-Crawler|heritrix|ibm.com\cs/crawler|ICCrawler|ichiro|MJ12bot|MetagerBot|msnbot-NewsBlogs|msnbot|msnbot-media|NG-Search|lucene.apache.org|NutchCVS|OmniExplorer_Bot|online.link.validator|psbot0|Seekbot|Sensis.Web.Crawler|SEO.search.Crawler|Seoma.\[SEO.Crawler\]|SEOsearch|Snappy|www.urltrends.com|www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~crawler|SynooBot|crawleradmin.t-info@telekom.de|TurnitinBot|voyager|W3.SiteSearch.Crawler|W3C-checklink|W3C_Validator|www.WISEnutbot.com|yacybot|Yahoo-MMCrawler|Yahoo\!.DE.Slurp|Yahoo\!.Slurp|YahooSeeker).* [NC]
+RewriteRule .* - [F]
+</pre>
+
+
 
 <h3 id="faqconfig">Configuration</h3>
 
diff --git a/contrib/htaccess b/contrib/htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index 6eebe01013..0000000000
--- a/contrib/htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-RewriteEngine on
-
-# Allow only GET and POST verbs
-RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^(GET|POST)$ [NC,OR]
-
-# Ban Typical Vulnerability Scanners and others
-# Kick out Script Kiddies
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(java|curl|wget).* [NC,OR]
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(libwww-perl|curl|wget|python|nikto|wkito|pikto|scan|acunetix).* [NC,OR]
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(winhttp|HTTrack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract|grab|miner).* [NC,OR]
-
-# Ban Search Engines, Crawlers to your administrative panel
-# No reasons to access from bots
-# Ultimately Better than the useless robots.txt
-# Did google respect robots.txt?
-# Try google: intitle:phpMyAdmin intext:"Welcome to phpMyAdmin *.*.*" intext:"Log in" -wiki -forum -forums -questions intext:"Cookies must be enabled"
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(AdsBot-Google|ia_archiver|Scooter|Ask.Jeeves|Baiduspider|Exabot|FAST.Enterprise.Crawler|FAST-WebCrawler|www\.neomo\.de|Gigabot|Mediapartners-Google|Google.Desktop|Feedfetcher-Google|Googlebot|heise-IT-Markt-Crawler|heritrix|ibm.com\cs/crawler|ICCrawler|ichiro|MJ12bot|MetagerBot|msnbot-NewsBlogs|msnbot|msnbot-media|NG-Search|lucene.apache.org|NutchCVS|OmniExplorer_Bot|online.link.validator|psbot0|Seekbot|Sensis.Web.Crawler|SEO.search.Crawler|Seoma.\[SEO.Crawler\]|SEOsearch|Snappy|www.urltrends.com|www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~crawler|SynooBot|crawleradmin.t-info@telekom.de|TurnitinBot|voyager|W3.SiteSearch.Crawler|W3C-checklink|W3C_Validator|www.WISEnutbot.com|yacybot|Yahoo-MMCrawler|Yahoo\!.DE.Slurp|Yahoo\!.Slurp|YahooSeeker).* [NC]
-RewriteRule .* - [F]
-