HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
Hello, please I need help on how to stop bots hitting my forum.
Many bots have been hitting an attachment in my site and that affected my site once and I think they are increasing my pageviews.
I have removed the topic and attachment but in Who's Online it shows that they keep hitting that attachment though it no longer exists.
Re: HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
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Thanks for the reply. I think I will start using google analytics, I'm not really a coder so I'm afraid I might mess up my .htacess.
Thanks again.
Re: HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
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you can use services like incapsula or cloudflare. most malicious bot will be blocked by default.
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It seems odd they're hitting only a particular attachment and nothing more. Has someone posted a link to said attachment elsewhere? That may not be a bad thing. It could drive some traffic toward your forum. Most of us actually want that, but it's completely up to you.
If you're running nginx there is a bad bot blocker script on github. It works wonderfully!
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Have you enabled Configuration ⇒ Security and Moderation ⇒ Bad Behavior?
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It'll block most spammers and link scrapers surprisingly well.