DDL Site Sending Lots Of Fake Visitors and It Makes My WordPress Down!

10 years ago

Blocking users or sites that originate from a particular domain is another useful trick of .htaccess.

Before I get to the code itself, it's important to note that blocking access by referrer in .htaccess requires the help of the Apache module mod_rewrite to make out the referrer first. This module is installed by default on most servers (ask your host if you're not sure). So, to deny access all traffic that originate from a particular domain (referrers) to your site, use the following code:

Block traffic from a single referrer:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Block traffic from multiple referrers

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

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isodownload

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seopratyush

Blocking users or sites that originate from a particular domain is another useful trick of .htaccess.

Before I get to the code itself, it's important to note that blocking access by referrer in .htaccess requires the help of the Apache module mod_rewrite to make out the referrer first. This module is installed by default on most servers (ask your host if you're not sure). So, to deny access all traffic that originate from a particular domain (referrers) to your site, use the following code:

Block traffic from a single referrer:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Block traffic from multiple referrers

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

thanks for that, I guess it helps (at least I cant see any IP logs in my wordfence plugin's last activity page) but my cpanel's latest visitors page still shows that fake IP visits (they are getting internal server error (500) ) , my CPU and Memory usage reduced by the way.

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RobinInTexas 10 years ago

You might be able to eliminate the error logs and send them away by redirecting instead of blocking.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR] #by referrer
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^96\.47\. [OR] # by IP block
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^96\.47\.22\.153 [OR] # by IP
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baidu [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yandex [NC,OR] # by user agent
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YYSpider [NC] # by user agent
RewriteRule .* http://%{REMOTE_ADDR} [L,R=403] # tells them what they are looking for is at their ip
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IskaDev

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seopratyush

Blocking users or sites that originate from a particular domain is another useful trick of .htaccess.

Before I get to the code itself, it's important to note that blocking access by referrer in .htaccess requires the help of the Apache module mod_rewrite to make out the referrer first. This module is installed by default on most servers (ask your host if you're not sure). So, to deny access all traffic that originate from a particular domain (referrers) to your site, use the following code:

Block traffic from a single referrer:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Block traffic from multiple referrers

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

i think he is right

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Ekushey

10 years ago

I hope you're not under a DDoS attack.

I'd would strongly recommend you to use https://www.cloudflare.com to protect your site. It'll also make the site load much faster along with many of it's benefits.

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isodownload

10 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

You might be able to eliminate the error logs and send them away by redirecting instead of blocking.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR] #by referrer
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^96.47. [OR] # by IP block
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^96.47.22.153 [OR] # by IP
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baidu [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yandex [NC,OR] # by user agent
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YYSpider [NC] # by user agent
RewriteRule .* http://%{REMOTE_ADDR} [L,R=403] # tells them what they are looking for is at their ip

why you want to block yandex, baidu and yyspider bots? It may help my website indexing in yandex search engine.
But I saw every minute yandex bot tries to attempt my website pages:

Code:

.255.253.138
/forums/memberlist.php?sk=f&sd=a&first_char=s&sid=8dfe6f7cb016968205e016ca81f1d23e
7/29/14 10:36 AM
11125
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
157.55.39.158
/resources-by-categories/
7/29/14 10:36 AM
21182
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
5.255.253.138
/forums/memberlist.php?sk=a&sd=a&first_char=j&sid=24369d2c9ff6eed78612810777249724
7/29/14 10:36 AM
11209
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
66.249.79.128
/tag/playstation-3-2/feed/
7/29/14 10:36 AM
2182
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
5.255.253.138
/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=430&p=736&sid=b538f7a36756e716402e8eafdc019998
7/29/14 10:36 AM
12276
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
85.106.69.73
/favicon.ico
7/29/14 10:36 AM
0
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
5.255.253.138
/forums/memberlist.php?sk=c&sd=d&first_char=e&sid=200ea961e4ddc39f8e298a4c72689b29
7/29/14 10:36 AM
11153
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
85.106.69.73
/?custom-css=1&csblog=1&cscache=6&csrev=17
7/29/14 10:35 AM
110
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
http://www.chemicalsubjects.com/forums/
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
5.255.253.138
/forums/memberlist.php?sk=d&sd=a&first_char=k&sid=b11c3457b54b738d6e193bf69560110e
7/29/14 10:36 AM
11124
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
85.106.69.73
/forums/style.php?id=7&lang=en&sid=191e947d43bfa7e0eb0e9272ba9bf272
7/29/14 10:35 AM
26894
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
http://www.chemicalsubjects.com/forums/
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
85.106.69.73
/forums/cron.php?cron_type=tidy_cache&sid=191e947d43bfa7e0eb0e9272ba9bf272
7/29/14 10:35 AM
57
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
http://www.chemicalsubjects.com/forums/
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
5.255.253.138
/forums/memberlist.php?sk=b&sd=d&first_char=t&sid=b33bc0078e952eb4a9e8757e021f05ce
7/29/14 10:35 AM
11155
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)
85.106.69.73
/forums/
7/29/14 10:35 AM
16793
success 200
GET
HTTP/1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36

Originally Posted by Ekushey

I hope you're not under a DDoS attack.

I'd would strongly recommend you to use https://www.cloudflare.com to protect your site. It'll also make the site load much faster along with many of it's benefits.

I use 2 wordpress security plugin. Is that gives me another server loads?

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RobinInTexas

10 years ago

Originally Posted by isodownload

why you want to block yandex, baidu and yyspider bots? It may help my website indexing in yandex search engine.
But I saw every minute yandex bot tries to attempt my website pages:

Lots of load I am not looking for their traffic.

I was just presenting an example of different ways to eliminate traffic, User agent is one of three techniques, IP/IP range and referrer that I use.

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KirkMcD

10 years ago

You listed your site on a place called "dirty warez" and didn't expect bad things to happen?

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isodownload

10 years ago

I had talked with them .
They said:

Its most likely bots/trawlers indexing/scraping content from the site, this happens with older DDL sites.

If this is overloading your site you really should change webhosts, I will delete your downloads.

simple. It's the robots.txt file. Probably sais index,follow which means that not only will the bots index the links on the topics, they'll also follow them to index links on those sites, and that's a good thing actually as it generates at 1st view bot traffic, but also indexes your site into their search engines making it available for the public. If your site gets overloaded, the hardware setup is too weak and you need to contact your hoster.

and yes, that's happening to all sites with the proper robots.txt file in the site root

Would it be true?
How come bots /spiders like that overloads my site like this?

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RobinInTexas

10 years ago

As previously mentioned, use cloudflare and block unwanted countries.

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driveyourtech 10 years ago

+1 for Cloudflare
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- isodownload 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by driveyourtech
  
  +1 for Cloudflare
  
  Does free version of cloudflare useful?
  
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  damoncloudflare 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by isodownload
  
  Does free version of cloudflare useful?
  
  Yes, our free version is useful (it includes a CDN and Basic Security). Did you have a more specific question that I could answer for you?
  
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kpmedia

10 years ago

CloudFlare will likely slow your site down.

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Karen Blundell 10 years ago

you don't have to use Cloudflare - I never have.

block by IP or by referrer on your .htaccess site.

here's all the info you need:

Deny visitors by IP address - Apache .htaccess Guide, Tutorials & Examples
Deny visitors by referrer - Apache .htaccess Guide, Tutorials & Examples
It is quite easy to add stuff to your htaccess file
How to use .htaccess - Apache .htaccess Guide, Tutorials & Examples

good luck!
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