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Site being hit by bots use of .htaccess?

MrTall
Hello, I have no idea to where this should be posted here but I'm hoping for any help. I have noticed my site running phpbb is consistently having in excess of 500 guests all presumed to be bots using the following: [quote] Guest IP: 87.198.186.162 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:45 pm Guest IP: 190.207.136.133 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:45 pm Guest IP: 41.82.137.180 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:45 pm Guest IP: 103.251.17.192 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:45 pm Guest IP: 117.207.220.104 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:44 pm Guest IP: 72.250.211.102 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:44 pm Guest IP: 111.255.153.128 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:44 pm Guest IP: 180.183.133.111 " Whois Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
What would be the best way to block this traffic? .htaccess, firewall? and how? Really appreciate any assistance on this! :) Thanks

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  • rootsmoke
    Re: Site being hit by bots ... use of .htaccess? Hello, You can restrict other bots with is crawling your website via following URL. === /http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/restricting-bots/how-to-stop-search-engines-from-crawling-your-website How to stop Search Engines from crawling your Website | InMotion Hosting === Further, you can installed CSF firewall to block IP such as set connlimit.
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  • robb3369
    Re: Site being hit by bots ... use of .htaccess? This may help... [url=http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/block-bots-with-htaccess.shtml]How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with .htaccess (thesitewizard.com) [COLOR="silver">- - - Updated - - - Actually looking deeper... We have a large vBulletin forum that uses the StopForumSpam data feed to block these forum type bots... They do have a module that works with phpBB, but it looks like the developer opened it up on GitHub: https://github.com/EXreaction/Anti-Spam-ACP Not sure if this helps, but maybe worth a look...
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  • rhenderson
    Re: Site being hit by bots ... use of .htaccess? [quote="MrTall, post: 1603072">Hello, I have no idea to where this should be posted here but I'm hoping for any help. I have noticed my site running phpbb is consistently having in excess of 500 guests all presumed to be bots using the following: What would be the best way to block this traffic? .htaccess, firewall? and how? Really appreciate any assistance on this! :) Thanks
    We are using Mod-Security so it is server wide, you might check out PuntaPirata - [url=http://puntapirata.com/On-House-ModSec-Rules.php]ModSec Taylor Made and Tweaks by Sergio
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :) Keep in mind that you should review the IP addresses of some of the bots to ensure you actually want to block them. For instance, you may want to allow Google bots to scan your forums so that the results are listed on the Google search engine. Thank you.
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