Thanks Joshua,So, If I am reading that docs correctly, the bit I have to deny certain USer Agents should go near the top of my httpd.conf?
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^IDBot" block_bad_bots
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^$" block_bad_bots
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Java/1.4.1_04" block_bad_bots
<Directory "/">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=block_bad_bots
</Directory>
-Grant
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From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Grant Peel" <gpeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Logging Denied Referrers
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Grant Peel <gpeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all, As mentioned in previous emails, I am trying to deny access via SetEnvIf statements in my httpd.conf (to block smap bots / email harvesters etc. I have two questions:1. My server has several hundred VirtualHost directives. When the SetEnvIf statements are just placed in the main server config, will the block thosereferrers from the VirtualHosts as well?Yes, if placed in a <Directory> or <Location> section that is not overridden inside the <VirtualHost>s. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html#mergin2. How can I set logging to see if SetEnvIf statements are doing what I intended them to do?For your access log, use a log format that reports the user agent (such as the combined log format). Then you can just make sure the response code is 403 for the appropriate user agents. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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