On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:40:21 -0700 Bertrand Jacquin <[email protected]> said:

> Hey,
> 
> Taking a look

oh that was you editing .htaccss at the same time... :) i got a "file changed
on disk" ... :)

> Cheers
> 
> On 25/04/2017 19:51, Dave wrote:
> > Try the following apache config in your directory directive, or 
> > .htaccess
> > file:
> > 
> > BrowserMatchNoCase Baiduspider botblock
> > BrowserMatchNoCase Semrushbot botblock
> > BrowserMatchNoCase Ahrefsbot botblock
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > Deny from env=botblock
> > 
> >  Should block those specific bots, while allowing others to use http.  
> > It
> > could take a few weeks before the bots realise you've made a change to 
> > your
> > robots.txt .
> > 
> >  Cheers,
> >  davek
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  In the year 2017, of the month of April, on the 26th day, Carsten
> > Haitzler wrote:
> >> I've had to disable the whole http support for now for 
> >> git.enlightenment.org
> >> because several bots are crawling it causing our VM to basically be 
> >> loaded with
> >> 10-20 cgit cgi's running git queries for history etc. continually. I/O 
> >> and
> >> system load is going through the roof as a result and causing other 
> >> stuff like
> >> phab to crawl and begin timing out.
> >> 
> >> So anyone using HTTP for doing cmdline git stuff is, at this moment, 
> >> going to
> >> find things not working. SSH and GIT protocol should still work. I'll 
> >> keep this
> >> shut down for a few hours hoping the bots give up.
> >> 
> >> I added a robots.txt and edited the cigtrc to deny all bots from 
> >> indexing
> >> git.enlightenment.org - but the bots seem to be ignoring that now that 
> >> they
> >> have decided to start indexing.
> >> 
> >> I am wondering if this has been the cause of our issues - being 
> >> overloaded by
> >> indexer bots. FYI I counted 3 different bots indexing cgit at the same 
> >> time:
> >> Baiduspider, Semrushbot, Ahrefsbot.
> >> 
> >> I hope later they will start listening to robots.txt, but for now I 
> >> need to
> >> keep things off until the bots give up.
> >> 
> >> --
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> >> --------------
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> >> 
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