Bot Attack - IP Ban Thread

Post by **Stoker** » 12 May 2025, 18:00

SpIdErPiGgY wrote: 12 May 2025, 17:48 https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/

How did you include it?

Post by **SpIdErPiGgY** » 12 May 2025, 18:07

Stoker wrote: 12 May 2025, 18:00
SpIdErPiGgY wrote: 12 May 2025, 17:48 https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/
How did you include it?

Edit in common.php

Search:

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require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/startup.' . $phpEx);

Add above:

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include(realpath(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT')) . '/blackhole/index.php');

And in my custom style, overall_footer_after.html

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<a rel="nofollow" style="display:none" href="https://www.phpbbextnl.be/blackhole/" title="Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!">phpBB NL Ext Vertalingen</a>

And create the blackhole folder

Post by **Stoker** » 12 May 2025, 18:10

That looks simple

Post by **Stoker** » 14 May 2025, 14:09

The following countries are blocked:
- Brazil
- China
- Indonesia
- India
- Singapore
- Vietnam
and I will continue to block if necessary....

Post by **Steve** » 15 May 2025, 06:36

Don't block them country's just add a tariff

Post by **SpIdErPiGgY** » 15 May 2025, 16:21

Blocking in my Plesk firewall seems to be the best option...
Together with the 8G firewall in htaccess and Blackhole.

Post by **Stoker** » 15 May 2025, 16:32

I did it the same way @SpIdErPiGgY
Just not as much

Post by **pxdetroit** » 21 May 2025, 02:15

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I might've mentioned this before. One of my sites had a problem with spam. I used the extension "stop forum spam" for a quick solution without delving into htaccess. It works pretty well. Eventually I'd like to implement something like your solution.

Do you have multiple domains running under one hosting account? I do, and my host company tells me there's no way to separate the domains as far as server logs go. (When I view the traffic logs it's for all 10 of my sites together.) I asked them about separating out the domains into their own VPNs and the co said I'd have to do that through a different company.

I've been using the same host for 15 years at least but their services keep getting worse and worse. I seriously need a new hosting company even though it'll be a headache to migrate everything.

Post by **Stoker** » 21 May 2025, 10:02

Yes, I have multiple domains and logs for each domain.
I believe you get what you pay for. So you need to think about how much you want to pay.

Post by **Fred Rimbert** » 21 May 2025, 17:06

A question, are you all on a self-hosting solution?
Personally I never banned any IP on my board and my server never got down.

I only have this addition to the robots.txt file

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###################################################################
# The Ultimate robots.txt Bot and User-Agent Blocker
# Copyright:
# https://www.phpbb.com
###################################################################

### Version Information #
###################################################
### Version: V2/2025.02
### Updated: Sat Feb 08 11:54:08 UTC+01:00
### Disallow Bad Bot: 10
###################################################
### Version Information ##

User-Agent: Claudebot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-Agent: ByteDance
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Omgili
User-agent: RSSingBot
User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler
Disallow: /