Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

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On 10/10/09 14:37, quoth Steven W. Orr:
> I never really checked before, but I have a lot of evil spiders crawling
> around my server. Some of them respect my robots.txt file and others do not.
> Some of the ones that do are still *very* pushy. So I decided to shut that
> bastards off. Here's what I added to my httpd.conf:
> 
> RewriteLog    logs/rewrite_log
> RewriteLogLevel 1
> 
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  ^Baiduspider.* [OR]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}	^msnbot.* [OR]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}	^NaverBot.* [OR]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}	^Sogou-Test-Spider.*
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}	^Mozilla/4.0.*
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}	^T-Mobile Dash.*
> RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
> 
> and inside each of the virtual domains, I added:
> 
>     RewriteEngine On
>     RewriteOptions Inherit
> 
> Here's the problem. What I want to see is the rewrite_log telling me what it
> has redirected or failed. Instead, I'm getting a line telling me every link
> that it does NOT rewrite. For example:
> 
> 72.30.65.61 - - [10/Oct/2009:14:28:24 --0400] \
> [vdom.syslang.net/sid#b7298ed0][rid#b6b488e8/initial] (1) pass through /d1/fn
> 
> I have googled my brains out and it seems like others have had the same
> questions. I see no answers. If anyone has any idea I love to hear it.
> 
> I understand that nod_rewrite is complicated, but what I'd like to end up with
> a log of all the spiders that got rejected by my rules. Current;y, the
> access_log tells me where the attempt is, the error_log tell me nothing and
> the rewrite_log is telling me more than I want with none of what I need.
> 
> The goal is to see the spiders bouncing off.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> 

On 10/10/09 14:55, quoth Sharpe, Sam J:
> Are you actually missing the [OR] at the end of the 4th and 5th
> RewriteCond lines, or is that a mispaste...

Yes, thanks, I missed that, but that isn't the problem. The problem is that I
want to be able to see what gets rejected in the log files.

> I found this for a customer today, it's a cracking read and has some
> great pre-written ways of blocking this kind of thing:
> http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/fight-blog-spam-with-apache.html

Turns out there are a number of these kinds of pages out there and some of
them are asking the same question I am: How can I see the rejects in the log
files?

Anyone?


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