Bleadof's world of tinkering » Apache http://hiutale.org It's just life, it'll sort itself out Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:42:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Ha! I defeated the evil Chinese spam bot! http://hiutale.org/2006/07/05/ha-i-defeated-the-evil-chinese-spam-bot/ http://hiutale.org/2006/07/05/ha-i-defeated-the-evil-chinese-spam-bot/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:20:30 +0000 Bleadof http://hiutale.org/2006/07/05/ha-i-defeated-the-evil-chinese-spam-bot/ I’m been spammed by this Chinese spam bot. It tries to post on my non-existing guestbook by loading /?guestbook&action=write and generating dummy hits on my wordpress blog front page. Today I decided to stop that.

Ingredients

  • Apache
  • Apache mod_rewrite module
  • .htaccess love

Steps

  • 1. Create, if you don’t already have, a .htaccess file in your document root (ie. mine is /home/username/public_html/)
  • 2. Edit your .htaccess file and add following lines


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^guestbook&action=write$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ / [G]
</IfModule>

  • 3. Save

Now you are done and that url returns now 410 error code, which means the resource is gone.

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