Recent content by Alvin63

Just twiddling thumbs until it's released formally ..........................

Everything IMO. It's chalk and cheese.

Thanks for the tip. My server's bot said to replace my code with this .............. for current Litespeed. Which I guess is the same as your "newer" apache code.

I think you're correct though - the version I have is for older apache and the first (newer) version you posted I should be using for Litespeed apparently. So does that mean my old syntax won't work properly?

I'm on Litespeed but it worked for me.

This helped for me, thanks to help on here - thanks to @philmckrackon - at the end of .htaccess BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytedance" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytespider" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "Baiduspider" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "BIDUBrowser" bad_bot Order Deny,Allow Deny from...

The Cloudflare app will show the IP's and country as well so you don't have to look them up.

I think you have to be a bit careful with bot settings in Cloudflare though - some can cause other issues apparently.

Probably Bytedance or Bytespider if Singapore. That's why blocking them in .htaccess works quite well.

With the Cloudflare app installed there are all kinds of goodies and extras - it shows which country the bots are from Likewise with guests There are also other addons people use to reduce bot crawling - someone else might have a tip there, or you might need to start a new thread about bots.

The Cloudflare app helps with seeing where they are from.

How many bots crawling at any one time? You won't get rid of them completely, but if it's thousands, some of the above might help.

As well as this in ht.access, I have this for robots.txt (If you don't already have robots.txt). Both might help. User-agent: AspiegelBot Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: DotBot Disallow: / User-agent: MauiBot Disallow: /...

See above about bot blocking.

Do you have a robots.txt? Also, with some help on here, I added this to the end of ht.access: Which should help BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytedance" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytespider" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "Baiduspider" bad_bot BrowserMatchNoCase "BIDUBrowser" bad_bot Order...