Banning traffic

lozmatic · 2008-03-09 15:00:27

I’m getting quite a lot of spam in my log files. By this I mean referrals from sites that either want to sell me something or install malware.

Is there a way to prevent traffic from specific sites? Or IP addresses?

It would be great if this was something that could be easily managed in TXP.

lozmatic · 2008-03-09 15:07:10

Also, the search function in the visitor logs page doesn’t seem to work. I get ‘No results found.’ for Hosts and referrers ahd I know are there.

ruud · 2008-03-09 16:00:48

Spam in log files can be prevented by disabling logging (which is good for performance as well)

lozmatic · 2008-03-10 01:24:04

yes, but i’m addicted to the visitors log page. I don’t think I can do without.

Gocom · 2008-03-10 06:48:09

You can use .htaccess file to ban those addresses and ips

<Limit GET POST>
	order allow,deny
	deny from 193.110.145.185
	deny from 200.100.100.100
	allow from all
</Limit>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\. [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

In example ;)

Last edited by Gocom (2008-03-10 06:48:22)

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