HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
July 27, 2017, 11:43:52 am
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
Reply #2 – July 27, 2017, 04:59:48 pm
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
Reply #3 – July 28, 2017, 01:53:38 am
you can use services like incapsula or cloudflare. most malicious bot will be blocked by default.
Re: HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
Reply #5 – July 28, 2017, 08:46:04 am
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!
Re: HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
Reply #8 – July 30, 2017, 06:46:04 am
Have you enabled Configuration ⇒ Security and Moderation ⇒ Bad Behavior?
Re: HELP: How To Stop Bots Hitting My Forum
Reply #10 – July 30, 2017, 07:09:01 am
It'll block most spammers and link scrapers surprisingly well.