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July 9th 2010
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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 [...]

www. and non-www.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

This makes my blood boil. Why can’t server or website admins assume / expect that users use website addresses with and without the preceding www.? i.e. www.bbc.co.uk vs plain old bbc.co.uk.
I’ve come across two sites this morning alone. Pentagonglasstech.com (www works) and thetraffordcentre.co.uk (www works).
All you need to do, plebians, is alter the DNS slightly [...]