The Roller blacklist will not prevent referrers from appearing in the Apache logs, it's only designed to keep them out of the Roller database.
Filtering out evil referrers is difficult and tedious, so on most sites I'm involved with we don't show referrers at all (we commented out the guts of the show referrers macro so that it is a no-op). - Dave On 9/13/06, Emily Lynema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As part of a larger research university campus, we don't really have a single firewall that can be used to stop incoming requests. That's why we're hoping to use the tools within Roller to help us out. I am finding the Spam Prevention blacklist to work effectively for comments, but it doesn't seem to keeping the hits from referrers with blacklisted terms out of our Apache logs. Anyone know if it's possible for Roller to do that without implementing a solution at the firewall/server level? As many of the templates show the day's top referrers, this becomes a bigger issue. thanks! -emily Keith Sader wrote: > I actually recommend stopping it at the firewall. It got hit with a > ton of referrer spam and I wound up blocking most of it before it hit > the app. > > On 9/12/06, Emily Lynema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anybody have any especially good suggestions for preventing referrer >> spam? We're on Roller 2.1 and have seen a sudden influx of referrer spam >> in our logs from porn sites. >> >> I've seen the Spam Prevention box under Site Administration, but >> couldn't find any hints on Google or the User Guide about how to use the >> regex features - does it work exactly like regex in Perl (I'm forever >> having to add backslashes to use regex within Java)? Will it work to >> prevent referrer spam from specific domains, as well as for individual >> terms within URLs? >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice! >> -emily lynema >> -- >> Emily Lynema >> Systems Librarian for Digital Projects >> Information Technology, NCSU Libraries >> 919-513-8031 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > -- Emily Lynema Systems Librarian for Digital Projects Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
