Randem Systems Support Board

Aloha sonnyh,

I have attached a corrected file for you. The google domain (crawl-66-249-79-86.googlebot.com) was in the spider block list not the user-agent entry (googlebot). Also the google segment block was not in the ip block list (66.249). You can replace the contents of your htaccess file with the contents of this one.

I corrected these issues. Your lists should reflect these changes.

BTW: These changes need to be in both .htaccess files (root and smf) for it to work properly.

The htaccess file in the smf folder will over-ride the root htaccess file in most non-system cases.

Attached is a list of the Google Spiders and htaccess from the SMF root

I had 66.249.

How have you blacklisted Google? Did you add gogglebot to the spider blacklist and removed it from the spider whitelist or added 66.249 to the ip blacklist?
More information is needed. Let me see your .htaccess file.

Hi,
I must be doing something wrong.
I have blacklisted these spiders, but they keep showing up:
crawl-66-249-79-84.googlebot.com
crawl-66-249-79-82.googlebot.com

How should the entry be made to block these?

Thanks for your under consideration ! You can read more XenForo 2 Developer Documentation for implementation BotBanish add-on for XenForo.

Documentation: https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/

XenForo community: https://xenforo.com/community/

Aloha Nirjonadda,

We do not currently have a BotBanish version for Xenforo, this will be the first request. We will look into it. But for now you can use BotBanish for websites to protect your system from most possible threats.

Hello,

How to use BotBanish for XenForo forum? Do you have any add-on for Xenforo?

Thanks

You will either have to contact the MOD authors to see if they will correct the issues or have updates that correct them, correct them on your own or find a MOD that does not have these issues..

What do you suggest with respect to the NChat MOD?

All those errors are from your NChat MOD. I informed you it was causing issues a while ago... If you look in your SMF error log you will see that a few other MODS have issues also. Mostly "Unidentified index" issues. No BotBanish issues are reported...