The installation of BotBanish for WordPress is fairly straight forward. The installation is delivered as a folder that is to be installed via a manually upload. BotBanish's analytics will work most effectively with a SEO URL program installed and active.
BotBanish is a client/server application and will check regularly with the BotBanish server for information regarding a bot attack and any maintenance that will need to be done to keep the system is a high state of readiness.
BotBanish will work in conjunction with other bot protectors but is your first line of defense to help aid in the reduction of bot traffic and access to your forum. We also suggest that you add CAPTCA to your forum to help with bot denial
BotBanish for WordPress Requires PHP, mySQL & Apache
and the installation process is as follows:
- Check to see if PHP Version 5.3.x at a minimum is installed with minimum mysqli version 5.5.19. You can execute the included info.php file to check for these installations. Place the info.php file in the root folder of your hosted site then type in your browser http://your_domain.com/info.php your_domain.com is your actual hosted domain name, use http:// or https:// accordingly.
- Update the APIKEY in the BotBanish/bot/Client/Settings_Client.php file to match the APIKEY that you have obtained from BotBanish.com for your domain
BotBanish will automatically use the WordPress database for it's tables. The BotBanish installation will create all the tables that it needs in the database prefixed with botbanishclient_
- Upload the BotBanish zip file via the WordPress plugin installer; then activate the plug in. This installation will also install BotBanish for websites on your host to protect your website.
- Report to BotBanish.com the URL of the pages that you want to protect (normally Login & Registration pages). We may already be protecting them but it is better to be sure. We currently protect the WordPress login and registration pages.
- The installation is a plugin for WordPress and is installed in the WordPress plugin area.
- BotBanish will create the needed tables then attempt to import from your root .htaccess file into the BotBanish ip table any IP firewall rules that are present for future use. The BotBanish installation will also automatically add the needed code to your index.php so that BotBanish can be utilized.
- BotBanish is now protecting you from bots, spiders and user attacks. Each time someone or something is accessing your site BotBanish is checking them out and monitoring them for suspicious behavior.
BotBanish Black / White List Tables Created in Your Database:- botbanishclient_ip_dnb: Used to allow a known IP to access your system even though BotBanish may attempt to monitor and block it.
- botbanishclient_spiders_bad: Used to allow a known bad spider to access your system even though BotBanish may attempt to monitor and block it.
- botbanishclient_spiders_good: Used to allow a known good spider to be blocked from accessing your system even though BotBanish will allow it.
- botbanishclient_domain_bad: Used to allow a known bad domain to access your system even though BotBanish may attempt to monitor and block it.
- botbanishclient_domain_good: Used to allow a known good domain to be blocked from accessing your system even though BotBanish will allow it.
- botbanishclient_url_dnc: Used to disallow BotBanish from monitoring a URL for bad behavior.
- botbanishclient_ip: Used to record ip's that have been blocked from accessing your system.
BotBanish Analytics Tables Created in Your Database:
- botbanishclient_website_downloads: Used to retain user file download analytics.
- botbanishclient_website_visits: Used to retain user webpage visit analytics.
To access BotBanish Analytics; in the URL type PROTOCOL://YOURDOMAIN/BotBanish/bot/Scripts/BotBanishAnalytics.php
Where YOURDOMAIN is your actual domain name and PROTOCOL is http or https accordingly.
Download the latest version at https://botbanish.com (https://botbanish.com)
NOTE: Analytic data will be outdated on a managed WordPress system.
The cache would need to be flushed manually in the wp-admin section to bring analytic data up-to-date.
On a non-managed WordPress system the analytic data will be up-to-date unless a cache system is used.