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Posted March 18, 20168 yr Is there anything I can do about this onslaught of robots crawling my site? Can I block an entire country? I looked up the ip address and this is the information I retrieved. baiduspider-180-76-15-15.crawl.baidu.com I thought there was a way to ban IP Address's but I cannot find the feature in ACP to do so. We are running IPB v4.1.8.1 Thanks for any help!
March 18, 20168 yr Do you have access to CPanel for your site? If so there is an option there to block ip's.
March 18, 20168 yr Author 1 minute ago, Steve-Ray said: Do you have access to CPanel for your site? If so there is an option there to block ip's. Yes sir I do. Thanks! I will look into that option, I remember seeing it, and I completely forgot about it, thanks again!
March 18, 20168 yr I think that the only real way to block an ip on the active site is to Flag as Spammer but no matter what they would of had to register as a member of the site. You are welcome and I hope that it works for you.
March 18, 20168 yr Author Thanks again Steve! I'll report back on my progress for others to benefit from.
March 18, 20168 yr 5 hours ago, Courtland said: Or perhaps I could ban the domain baidu.com, is it possible? You can stop domains in .htaccess. Something like this: # Kill bad sites RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} baidu\.com [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] Those guys don't honor the Robots.txt protocol
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