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I have been trying to block referrer spam by using a mod rewrite in .htaccess but it never seems to work and always causes my site to become unreachable, but I am able to run short urls so I am a little confused.
I anyone runnig short urls at the same time as blocking referrer spam?
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I block referers I don't want to see by adding keywords in a PNConfig value in the module_vars table and by adding this to my referer.php file :
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$writeref = true;
$refex = pnConfigGetVar('httprefexcluded');
//if (!empty($refex) && $refex."" != "") {
if (!empty($refex)) {
$refexclusion = explode(' ', $refex);
$count = count($refexclusion);
$eregicondition = "((";
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
if ($i != $count-1) {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . ")|(";
} else {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . "))";
}
}
if (eregi($eregicondition, $httpreferer)) {
$writeref = false;
}
}
if ($writeref == true) {
// grab a reference to our table column..............
.......................
}
The list of words is separated by spaces...
My current list but I'm adding words as they appear...
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bookmark yahoo google xxx search msn sex poker casino texas credit 5gigs westvaley infoseek pills
I did a hack a long time ago to have a field in the administration to use to exclude words.......
Think I should do that again. Will ask...
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There's an old post about this, too. Some good code in it (not that your code isn't fly, chestnut).
http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=35990&highlight=block+referrer
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I saw it too... But having not much clue about htaccess... I chose the PHP way. :)
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I block referers I don't want to see by adding keywords in a PNConfig value in the module_vars table and by adding this to my referer.php file :
Code
$writeref = true;
$refex = pnConfigGetVar('httprefexcluded');
//if (!empty($refex) && $refex."" != "") {
if (!empty($refex)) {
$refexclusion = explode(' ', $refex);
$count = count($refexclusion);
$eregicondition = "((";
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
if ($i != $count-1) {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . ")|(";
} else {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . "))";
}
}
if (eregi($eregicondition, $httpreferer)) {
$writeref = false;
}
}
if ($writeref == true) {
// grab a reference to our table column..............
.......................
}
The list of words is separated by spaces...
My current list but I'm adding words as they appear...
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bookmark yahoo google xxx search msn sex poker casino texas credit 5gigs westvaley infoseek pills
I did a hack a long time ago to have a field in the administration to use to exclude words.......
Think I should do that again. Will ask...
Does that actually stop the referers from connecting to your site? Or does it simply not show it in your referers module. Or am I missing something here and that is esentially what the htaccess method does as well.
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With the .htaccess method, the referrers are redirected elsewhere. With Chestnut's PHP method, the referrers arrive at your site, but their visits are not logged by the referrals module.
You could do both, just to be safe :) Redirect and ignore - referral spam no more.
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The keywords exclusion system has been included in the upcoming 0.760...
So that is one done on 2 ! :wink:
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Nice. I didn't realize that I had that already - I'll have to explore it. :) Goodby poker/casino/pills sites. The best one was the unitedchurchofjebus.com (something like that) with it's poker and casino pages. SPAM!
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I didn't realize that I had that already - I'll have to explore it
You don't, unless you have the latest CVS ;)
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Oh, heh. That would be no.
Way to keep up with the times, though - Any reduction of crap on the 'net is a Good Thing (TM).
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Looking at my referral logs I'm being bombarded by these damn casino sites. It's official - I no longer like poker. I'm eagerly awaiting the .760 release, if only to get rid of their crap. Hook me up, fellas!
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I block referers I don't want to see by adding keywords in a PNConfig value in the module_vars table and by adding this to my referer.php file :
Code
$writeref = true;
$refex = pnConfigGetVar('httprefexcluded');
//if (!empty($refex) && $refex."" != "") {
if (!empty($refex)) {
$refexclusion = explode(' ', $refex);
$count = count($refexclusion);
$eregicondition = "((";
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
if ($i != $count-1) {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . ")|(";
} else {
$eregicondition .= $refexclusion[$i] . "))";
}
}
if (eregi($eregicondition, $httpreferer)) {
$writeref = false;
}
}
if ($writeref == true) {
// grab a reference to our table column..............
.......................
}
The list of words is separated by spaces...
My current list but I'm adding words as they appear...
Quote
bookmark yahoo google xxx search msn sex poker casino texas credit 5gigs westvaley infoseek pills
I did a hack a long time ago to have a field in the administration to use to exclude words.......
Think I should do that again. Will ask...
Can someone give me a sample where to place the key words? I have a couple of site which gives me over 200 hits, but do not want them to show up on my referrer. If these sites are taking off, does it still count the number of pageviews? Or does it lock them out? Thank you in advance.
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