Tag: Referer

How to protect my website from bots

In the article “How to block by Referer, User Agent, URL, query string, IP and their combinations in mod_rewrite” I showed how to block requests to a site that match several parameters at once – on the one hand, it is effective against bots, on the other – practically eliminates false positives, that is, when a regular user who is...

How to block by Referer, User Agent, URL, query string, IP and their combinations in mod_rewrite

As part of the fight against the influx of bots to the site (see the screenshot above), I had to refresh my knowledge of mod_rewrite. Below are examples of mod_rewrite rules that allow you to perform certain actions (such as blocking) for users who meet a large number of criteria at once – see the most recent example to see...
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