[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: About the bots

I had the same, basically killing the forums. I ended up blocking a load in htaccess file:

BrowserMatchNoCase "libwww-perl" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "wget" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "LieBaoFast" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Mb2345Browser" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "zh-CN" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "MicroMessenger" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "zh_CN" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Kinza" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytespider" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Baiduspider" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Sogou" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Datanyze" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "AspiegelBot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "adscanner" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "serpstatbot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "spaziodat" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "undefined" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "PetalBot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "trendictionbot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "SEMrushbot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "AhrefsBot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot

Statistics: Posted by ukautoforums — Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:42 pm

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