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Block Bad Bots Globally In Apache

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

There are plenty of guides around to block bots using mod_rewrite however on a shared system with many domains, if you want to block a spoofed bot which is changing IPs you can block it globally from the user-agent in the apache httpd.conf.
In this example, MajesticBot+ had their bot spoofed for the past several months [...]