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Referrer spam
I know that it is not GDPR compatible, but is there a way to have the IP addresses in the visitor logs in order to block referrer spam? In the past week, we had about 100,000 hits/day, most by a particular IP. I of course did not know that, except from the fact that our logs were over 1000 pages with 96 logs/page every time I checked for a week I ignored them but eventually decided to look at the server logs via sftp to identify the culprit.
I wonder if we could store IPs in the txp logs for 24 hours or so, for the protection of our sites.
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Re: Referrer spam
Perhaps a long shot, but I don’t see why you couldn’t switch on logging and then run a script once a day to clear the entries in txp_log that are older than that day. That could take the form of
- a separate php file that you trigger at a certain time each day using a cronjob on your server.
- a txp plugin that is triggered by a visit to the site and runs once a day doing the same.
Textpattern doesn’t have a “runner” that would do it at a certain point each day, so a txp plugin would have to be triggered by a visit. Said plugin would note if it had run already that day to stop it being triggered by every visit. The “risk” here is that if you have a day with no visitors (not likely with your site), then the logs may end up being stored for longer.
There is aks_cron (no idea if it still works) but as Jukka noted, it uses the same principle, not true cron.
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