Is this plugin available for others of us, or can someone sum up the .htaccess code that is thought of to be the best?
I have different code running on different sites. Am looking to start over this month and monitor stats on daily basis and see which methods work best for me. I just did not feel like I have time to monitor the referrer stats daily. As someone said, no matter what approach we use think we are going to have to use some individual blocking for sites that do not fit patterns. Shannon
i stopped %58 of my spammers with that htaccess file. instead of running lots of query in my MYSQL server (i have DB driven website), i am now showing basic html file (403 forbidden file). here is a result from my log file; 09.03.2005; total visits: 1044 blocked visits (403 forbidden): 223 i notice that there are still 130-160 or so visits that trying referrer spam. So, my success is 223/160+223 = %58
I tried to implement it and the exact code I used is RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteBase / # RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} poker [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} viagra [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} porn [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} casino [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} gambling [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} phentermine [NC,OR] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://spam.infochi.net/referrer.html [L] Code (markup): When I tried it in a broswer request with an empty or blank referrer, it sent me to the referrer.html page that I put in there. Can anyone help me understand why?
The plugin i tried earlier, didn't work worth crap. I don't know what I did wrong. I installed referrer karma for wordpress and that works, just not as good as hoped. I have something screwed up with that too. I'll look into that htaccess idea next. It sounds good to me. I just don't see how referrer spam can help the referring site? So what's the point?