#1787 - A bunch of spammers trying to access http://lovinity.org/pg/(spam address), causing flood of error messages – Composr CMS: Your Data, Your Privacy, Your Control

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By Guest posted 3rd Feb 2015, 4:48 AM

This kind of thing is a pain and not really appropriate for handling at the Composr level (it's not targeting the website specifically).

In the past I have just done mass IP blocks in .htaccess, or redirected the URLs they're trying off to example.com.

RewriteEngine on

# Misrouted traffic fix (12th Jan 2014)
RewriteRule ^baltimoreroot.* http://example.com/ [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^connect.* http://example.com/ [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^announce.* http://example.com/ [NC,R=301,L]

Turning off Composr's custom 404 page in the htaccess helps lower performance impact (or saving it to a static HTML file and using that as the 404 page).

By Guest posted 3rd Feb 2015, 4:49 AM

Instead of example.com one should probably use a non-existent site like gjkfjlgjlkdlkjgfljdkgjlfkd.com. Not nice for people in general to blackhole traffic to the same place, even if that place is designed to be super-efficient.