WordPress 2.0 1.5.x Plugin: Relatum Reus A Plugin ut reus relatum spammer bots ( quod humanus)
Overview
A Plugin ut reus tergum relatum spam rudimentum; postulo haud upfront configuration, haud mod-rewrite. Is est amo validus silens reus procul vestri ventus stipes. Exertus in WordPress 1.5.x quod 2.0. Is should opus per mane versions quoque.
Is does unus officium quod does is puteus. Satis said.
Update:
- A novus poema poematis of plugin est available per nonnullus enhancements. Commodo lego retineo hic. download link subter supter suggero tardus poema poematis.
- Is plugin does non contraho ullus notitia in amount of opus is does vel spammer bots is reus tergum. Is est quoniam Volo is futurus ut velox ut possible. Sic nonnullus populus may volo scio quam ut quin si plugin vere officina. Respondeo ut EGO have written an article inquam ut subsequens vestri site est tutis per relatum reus plugin.
- Quisquam quisnam have downloaded plugin pro May 4th, 2005 es vehementer prex ut re-download plugin iterum. A redintegro eram no pro non-default behavior of plugin subsequens a bug opinio perGustavo. Gratiae Gustavo!
- Si vestri WP installation suspendo intermittently secundum installing plugin tunc chmod vestri wp- impleo presul ut 777. Si vos es logged in quod in WP domus presul tunc exigo to order in linux/unix ratio would exsisto:
chmod 777 wp- impleo
Gratiae utUber Silverstein huic redintegro.
Background
EGO eram trying preoccupo relatum spammer’s ex meus blog sites. EGO saw pauci scriptor, nunquam a verus WordPress Plugin quod does officium vacuus postulo vos ut configure quisquam vel vacuus postulo manual modification of core lima. Quoque Volo ut curo album of relatum domains vacuus having ut modify radix code.
EGO sum incommoditas per Plugins, quod postulo modification of core WordPress code, quoniam is copiae copie vos per dolens upgrade ratio.
Sic EGO partum Relatum Reus Plugin pro WordPress 1.5 per sequens simplex commodum:
- Is should exsisto simplex utor.
- Is should exsisto simplex ut install.
- Is should adveho pre-configured.
- Is should sino changing relatum notitia.
- Is should embed obses concepta obviam foris modifications
- Is should postulo haud manual intervention pro dies- ut- dies operations.
Relatum Reus Plugin pro WordPress 1.5 est of ordo of upload- strenuus- quod- alieno Plugins ( amoWordPress 1.5 Plugin ut disable nofollow ex ineo), Plugins ut simplex opus.
nota Si vos reperio is plugin utilis, commodo meditatus affero ut subsequens development of magis talis plugins quod suffragium.
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Proficiscor 20th, 2005 procul 405: sum
Hmmm… Is would exsisto mirus si nos could laboro a central update muneris. EGO instituo myself consummatio 2-3 novus relatum ut meus .htaccess sulum week.
Aut via, Ive’ added multus of ones EGO suscipio ut album. Quisquam can carpo is proculhttp:/www.pirate-king.com/wp- impleo/referer.txt/
Proficiscor 20th, 2005 procul 644: sum
Gratiae pro socius vestri album.
Proficiscor 20th, 2005 procul 1246: pm
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Proficiscor 21st, 2005 procul 1032: sum
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Proficiscor 24th, 2005 procul 150: sum
[...] ego tiene le statistiche ed mediocris subissato di spam, fossura che ora esiste una soluzione: relatum reus, un plugin per wordpress che usa una blacklist [...]
Proficiscor 24th, 2005 procul 326: sum
[...] ing tamen fartim meus civitas per crap. Iam EGO have a chance defendo myself. EGO iustus instituo a relatum reus plug- pro WordPress quod Im’ hoping is wor [...]
Proficiscor 25th, 2005 procul 426: sum
Gratiae a bunch pro stilus is plugin. Ive’ been vultus pro unus illorum.
Proficiscor 25th, 2005 procul 444: sum
Gratiae ut totus pro compliments. EGO sum gauisus scio vos instituo is utilis.
EGO sum reputo super comprehendo Chads’ informatio of a central dispensatio of updates in tunc solvo. Narro an automatic weekly update, quod incorporates vestri changes per per novus viscus ex meus album.
Quis operor vos totus reputo?
BTW: Vos can usquequaque vultus in meusalbum.
Proficiscor 29th, 2005 procul 335: pm
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Proficiscor 30th, 2005 procul 411: sum
Gratiae summopere pro Relatum Reus Plugin. EGO eram vultus pro quispiam amo ut ut Ive’ exaggeratus vis of bogus referring sites. Utpote Im’ in a partis obnoxius suggestus, effectus htaccess rewrite sceptrum res est problematic quod vicis- perussi.
Proficiscor 30th, 2005 procul 756: sum
Angusman, gratiae pro partum is plugin. Im’ vultus porro ut benefitting ex is. EGO have a question super disabling links sententia. EGO manually partum referer.txt lima, chmod is ut 666. Vero, secundum clicking in disable link is tribuo mihi pauci admonitio nuntius amo “ admonitio: tactus Unable creo lima hsphere/ locus/ domus/ procella/familywebwatch.com/blog_test/wp- impleo/plugins/./.nrsetup.txt quoniam Permission denied in hsphere/ locus/ domus/ procella/familywebwatch.com/blog_test/wp- impleo/plugins/noreferer.php in versus 48″.
Quis sum EGO effectus nefas? Gratiae pro ullus succurro vos can dedi.
Proficiscor 30th, 2005 procul 758: sum
Oh, Im’ sorryone… magis res. Sum EGO rectus in meus intelligendo ut secundum EGO delete referer.txt lima ( pro obses causa, EGO coniecto) ut ut notitia est quomodo servo alibi pro plugin pergo opus?
Proficiscor 30th, 2005 procul 531: pm
Abyssus iterum, Angsuman. Meus mane stipes est absentis. Did vos adepto is? Nisi, Id’ exsisto gauisus interpretor iterum succurro EGO postulo per vestri plugin. EGO vultus porro ut auditurus esse vobis.
Proficiscor 31st, 2005 procul 519: pm
@Ken
Does vestri wp- impleo presul have write permission?
processus of disabling est perfectus per partum a lima ( usura tactus) nomen nrsetup.txt in vestri wp- impleo presul. Vos can quoque manually partum lima pro same presencia.
Etiam, ut is cannot reperio referer.txt tunc is uses default album of spammers quod est hardcoded in plugin lima.
Etiam, EGO got vestri stipes. EGO eram sicco in res.
Permissum mihi teneo si ut oratio totus vestri questions.
Proficiscor 31st, 2005 procul 603: pm
@Ken Vos operor non postulo ut delete referer.txt lima pro obses.
Deleting is doesnt’ enhance obses in ullus via. Verum EGO foveo ut vos suscipio vestri own lima quod update is ut necesse.
Totus EGO operor est preoccupo lima ex res deleted/ partum per foris usura disabling pluma. Sic foris cannot modify vestri relatum album acsi they coniecto ut vos es usura is plugin. Emendo lima est imperium per wordpress admin auctorizo mechanism. Sic secundum disabling vos postulo non have ullus sollicitudo wrt. obses.
Proficiscor 31st, 2005 procul 647: pm
Gratiae pro questus tergum volo.
Is wasnt’ insquequo EGO sent vos alius ineo ut EGO animadverto ut praevius ineo erant in temperantia. Ut EGO summitto tertius unus ut’ ut ceteri papaver usque dico mihi ut. Rumex super ut.
Meus wp- impleo presul est paro ut 755. “humus” quod “ publicus” es non paro scribo“”. Should they exsisto?
Im’ rumex — EGO dont’ agnosco quis vos vilis ut vos narro “ usura tactus”. Illic est haud lima accersitus “nrsetup.txt” in meus wp- impleo presul. Es vos sententia ut EGO can vel should partum unus? Si sic, Im’ non videlicet quis lima should postulo. Could vos expedio?
EGO agnosco super non postulo ut delete referer.txt lima. Sic si EGO have wp- impleo presul paro ut rectus chmod, mos is tunc disable is ut vos exsequor?
EGO vere appreciate vestri succurro!
April 1st, 2005 procul 322: sum
wp- impleo presul should exsisto writable per processus cursor php, quod Northmanni has idem eadem idem permissions ut vestri webserver ( amo Apache). Est vestri textus servo cursor sub vestri login id?
EGO vehementer suspectus ut is doesnt’ have write permission ut wp- impleo presul. Is est forsit cursor ut “ nemo”. Vos can operor a ps ef ut expiscor is. Requiro a processus accersitus httpd si vos es cursor in Apache.
Alius via est ut temporarily chmod wp- impleo ut 777 quod animadverto si is solves vestri forsit.
simplex solutio vobis est creo an cassus lima accersitus nrsetup.txt sub wp- impleo presul manually. Vos es perfectus. Vos dont’ postulo ut fatigo super quisquam alius. setup est iam copiose tutis.
Si vos es non sollicitus super manually configuring is per referrers’ tunc vos can quoque delete referer.txt lima. Vos can usquequaque change vestri mens laxus.
Per “ tactus” EGO vilis unix to order EGO adsuesco assuesco partum lima.
April 1st, 2005 procul 539: sum
Okay, EGO reputo Im’ fere illic. EGO did chmod wp- impleo ut 777 (temporarily) quod exertus lectio link ut disable referer.txt quod is videor laboro ( haud erroris erant donatus). EGO quoque instituo nrsetup.txt had been partum automatically in wp- impleo.
EGO chmod presul tergum ut suus exemplar occasus quod clicked link quod did non adepto an erroris nuntius. Sic, substructio in quis vestri’ sententia, iam ut nrsetup.txt est tendo, is vultus amo Im’ perfectus, vox?
Rumex pro tot questions. EGO coniecto quis’ turbatio mihi est ut plugin says ut disable links ut referer.txt quod vos persolvo ut referer.txt can exsisto deleted, Im’ iustus left admiratio, “ sic quam does is teneo ut servo opus?” Nimirum, Im’ NON sententia youd’ progressio is ut via ( ut would exsisto occurro- uber LOL). Im’ iustus trying impetro a bonus intelligendo of licet,.
EGO vere operor appreciate vestri patientia me quod succurro youve’ donatus.
April 2nd, 2005 procul 934: pm
Etiam, EGO reputo vos es perfectus.
diasbling of links opes quisquam per obvius ut urls’ creo quod delete vestri referer.txt mos non polleo ut. Secundum vos “disable” links, talis operations ero inconcessus, exaro vos re-enable iterum.
Is doesnt’ motum opus of plugin in ullus via.
via is officina est is. Is reprehendo video vidi visum si referer.txt est tendo. Si sic, is tunc uses is quod sees si current relatum compositus quisquam in vestri album. Si referer.txt lima est non tendo tunc is uses suus own penitus album.
Ut Inquam ut referer.txt can exsisto deleted, EGO vilis ut per effectus sic vos would exsisto usura default paro of referrers’. Sis ut mos album tunc vos postulo habeo referer.txt lima tendo per vestri own viscus.
Spes ut expedio…
April 6th, 2005 procul 734: pm
Hi!
Ut Conor ut run
noreferer.php?noreferer_allsettrue=
EGO adepto a 500 Penitus Servo erroris.
Quis’ nefas? (Possibly lima permissions?)
Contemplor,
Sarcalogos
April 7th, 2005 procul 1240: sum
@Christian
EGO sum vindicatum vos es usura link specified in plugin genus. Est ut rectus?
Tendo changing wp- impleo permission ut 777. Run is. Tunc change wp- impleo permission ut vestri vetus pendo.
Permissum mihi teneo quam is goes.
April 7th, 2005 procul 927: pm
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May 4th, 2005 procul 251: sum
Abyssus,
Id’ install is plugin quod suus’ activated, quoque EGO adaugeo relatum url in referers.txt. Tamen EGO etiam
seeing idem eadem idem spam relatum in meus civitas!
Vel, in referers.txt Ive’ “p0ker()” tamen in meus relatum EGO animadverto “http:/www.p0ker.blabla.com()./ nota (0o)=).
Quis’ nefas?
gratiae!!
May 4th, 2005 procul 449: sum
Gustavo
Gratiae pro bug opinio. EGO affirmo bug quod venio pro non-default utor of plugin. EGO have updated plugin lima. Commodo download iterum.
Gratiae.
Totus,
Si vos have downloaded plugin pro, commodo download is iterum ut a velico erroris pro non-default utor of plugin (customized relatum lima) has been evestigatus quod fixed.
May 6th, 2005 procul 944: pm
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May 10th, 2005 procul 556: sum
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May 15th, 2005 procul 103: pm
hey vir,
non certus quis EGO sum effectus nefas tamen ego iustus installed a novus wp 1.5 blog
quod ut EGO adaugeo noreferrer plugin ut meus plugin folder, tunc in meus site conor ut click
‘emendo’ link ut ego vado in meus Wordpress user interface, is suspendo quod does retineo mihi invado illic..
tamen ut ego aufero noreferrer plugin ex meus plugin folder per ftp, tunc ego can obvius meus blog quod admin teres..
noreferrer plugin est pensilis quispiam sursum, non certus quare.
ego sum vindicatum ut install EGO tantum have ut occumbo lima in meus plugins presul? quod ut is?
tom
May 15th, 2005 procul 324: pm
@Thomas
Have vos activated plugin primoris?
Primoris utor is iustus secundum activation, haud customization. Quondam vos es comfortable per tunc partum a mos lima per clicking in vindico link in Plugin procurator ( retineo in stipes).
Primoris vos postulo creo lima, pro vos can emendo is. Commodo reprehendo instructions in stipes. They should expedio retineo.
May 15th, 2005 procul 328: pm
@Thomas Est vestri wp- impleo presul writable?
May 16th, 2005 procul 150: sum
etiam meus wp impleo presul est paro procul 755
quod etiam, EGO sum non effectus ullus customization, iustus loco is in plugin folder tunc exertus ut strenuus is.
Is est vere a insolitus bug, non certus quare is est venio.
EGO have vestri noreferrer plugin in a diversus wp 1.5 blog quod illic videor ut exsisto haud problems illic.
Tamen per is unus, vox secundum EGO loco is in meus plugin presul, tunc peto meus admin plugin section. Tunc ut Conor ut strenuus is, is quoque suspendo quod gets stuck.
Specialissimus…
non certus quis alius could exsisto nefas.. maybe EGO mos iustus have utor hashcash plugin pro iam..
May 16th, 2005 procul 427: sum
Illic isnt’ quisquam quod can causa is behavior. EGO sum ut admiratio ut vos es. Nunquam had ullus alius opinio pro vel longinquus amo is.
Iustus a hunch. Can vos re-download lima commodo ( ex meus site) quod tendo iterum. Permissum mihi teneo quis venio.
May 16th, 2005 procul 824: sum
ego defessus ut quoque… haud fortuna..
gratiae pro tips sententia..
letifico.
June 7th, 2005 procul 134: pm
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June 13th, 2005 procul 119: sum
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June 20th, 2005 procul 1009: sum
Peius’ tribuo is a vado res quinymo fed- sursum per parasitic spamming. Im’ laetus ego dont’ have laboro per code ultra meus occupo efficio vestri solutio.
July 9th, 2005 procul 827: pm
[...] Impleo gaps insquequo Nocens Behavior gets updated, Ive’ installed is relatum reus accersitus, puteus, “ relatum Bouncer.” furta est ut vos partum a text lima ut plug- in references. Huic text lima vos penetro in domains of sites ut es transporto vos relatum spam. Si site est huic album, plug- in mos “ reus” relatum link tergum ut ledo site. In substantia, ullus links ex ut site es simplex non recipero. Valde nice. Is clausus bots quod humanus. Relatum reus venit per a default album of notus spamming sites. Ive’ added super 8 sites ut erant questus per Nocens Behavior. Dum suus’ valde molestus habeo ut tracto totus is spam, in nonnullus mores, suus’ fun impetro satisfaction in gnarus ut EGO sum evinco lemma, quod mos usquequaque polleo dimitto an patefacio ineo vultus pro articles quod trackbacks. Narro of trackbacks, Ive’ added trackback tutela, pariter. Si vos trackback ut meeciteewurkor quod is doesnt’ statim ostendo sursum, ut opes suus’ been held in temperantia. [...]
July 11th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
[...] [EDIT] Back on again, please report any problems. Suggestions that I have found useful include: Apache mod_security, Spam Valve, Bad behavior, WP Hashcash and Referer Bouncer I have already implemented a couple of these and am in the process of rewriting a couple more to suit my needs. The first three are very promising. Bad Behavio(u)r has some clever code and when used without the logging feature, is very swift. I might tweak the code a bit to make it even more transparent and engage it *before* the Wordpress process using Addhandler. Using JS verification is an option that I would consider but would rather stay away from. (Visited 121 times) [...]
July 17th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Excellet plugin! I’ve been looking for something exactly like this to weed out the spam in my referrer links.
July 27th, 2005 at 11:32 am
[...] This took care of it. Installation is easy (though I had a little trouble with permissions), and the list of banned referrers easy to edit. Best of all: The messages bounce back to the referring URL. Heh. (I don’t have any way to prove it’s happening, but the images in my head are enough.) [...]
July 30th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
[...] WordPress 1.5 Plugin: Referrer Bouncer A Plugin to bounce referrer spammer bots (and humans) Simple Thoughts A neat referrer spam plugin that I will rollout when I’m sitting at my proper desk. (tags: blog plugins wordpress blogs spam referrer) [...]
August 1st, 2005 at 7:55 pm
[...] See the above image? This is what happens when you somehow get blank lines in certain files of your Wordpress installation or plug-ins. In my case, it was the plug-in I use to bounce referrer spam, called Referrer-Bouncer. Referrer bouncer uses one php file that checks incoming referrers against a text file, and if it finds a match then it will bounce the referral back into the abyss. Well, if you accidentally insert a blank line in this text file, like I somehow did today, then you will find that you cannot access your admin panel, it will infinitely loop constantly bouncing itself. Firefox returns the above error. Internet Explorer just sat there all confused. [...]
August 3rd, 2005 at 4:11 am
[...] next… it’s this refferer bouncer thingy… works like the b2evo blacklist of specific site addresses…. if anyone from your blacklist tries to get in to your site… it gives the spammer an error message of sorts hence… they cant even get in [...]
August 17th, 2005 at 6:33 am
After using this for a while, I started to get error messages that my redirect url limit was exceeded. I couldn’t even log in to my admin panel. When I deleted the plugin, the problem went away. When I reinstalled, the problem came back. What am I doing wrong?
August 17th, 2005 at 7:38 am
@Kristal
Please delete the blank line between:
in your referer.txt file. That will solve the problem. In other words you cannot have empty lines in this file.
August 17th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
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August 17th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
thank you
August 17th, 2005 at 10:43 pm
@Krystal
You are welcome.
BTW: You don’t even need the vending-machine.narod.ru line as your .ru line before will match any ru domains.
August 18th, 2005 at 6:04 am
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August 26th, 2005 at 12:25 am
I have a use in mind for this plugin a little different fr. the main one Angsuman conceived it for & I just want to be sure that it’ll accomplish what I need.
Periodically, I get visitors who are referred to my site by various online forums. They come to my site referred fr. the forum sites and leave pretty nasty comments. And sometimes they leave them in droves.
My question is: once I discover that a particular domain is referring these people to me & they’re leaving these unwanted messages, if I add that particular referring domain to my referer.txt file will it bounce the unwanted commenter back to the domain/URL fr. which they came?
If so, this is something I very much need. I’ve just installed it & no problems so far. Proof of the pudding will come when my next “attack” happens.
August 26th, 2005 at 12:58 am
UPDATE: I tested the plugin by going to one of the sites which linked to my blog & sent nasty commenters my way. While at the site, I found the link to my post, clicked on it and…was promptly bounced right back to the original site!
Worked just like I hoped it would. This will be one useful tool in fighting certain types of unwanted visitors.
August 26th, 2005 at 1:38 am
Hey, if Thomas is still reading this (see his May 16th comment) I think I discovered what might’ve been the problem with his WP installation hanging after installing the plugin. He says in his comment that he set his wp-content folder to 755. I had mine set to 755 as well & got the same hang behavior. But when I set it to 777, then everything went back to working fine.
So be sure your folder is set to 777.
Angsuman: if Thomas doesn’t see this maybe you have his e mail & can send him this comment in case it’ll fix his problem?
August 26th, 2005 at 1:58 am
[...] Remember that old line from Julius Caesar: “I come here not to bury Caesar but to praise him.” Well, I come here to bury certain unwanted blog visitors and to praise Angsuman’s remarkable Referer Bouncer plugin. [...]
August 26th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Thanks Richard for the solution. I have emailed Thomas about your solution (cc’ed you).
I will update the post with this.
August 26th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
Angsuman: I’ve noticed a weird behavior in my CHMOD settings. Yesterday, my plugins folder & referer.txt & noreferer.php files were all set to 777. Tonight, one reverted to 644 & one to 755. This in turned caused that weird hanging behavior once again.
Can you think why CHMOD settings would change? How do you keep them set once you configure them?
August 27th, 2005 at 12:03 am
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September 19th, 2005 at 6:27 am
[...] Then I found Referrer Bouncer (via Blogging Pro News), a WordPress plugin that blocks referrer spams by matching against a plain text file. It gives some interesting responses — instead of denying spambot the access, it actually sends back a 302 “Found” to tell the spammers to go back its own website. [...]
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:24 am
[...] So after weighing my options, I decided to ban spam referrers from ever hitting my site, at least on my WordPress-based J Spotter, the WP referrer bouncer plugin being readily available. [...]
September 24th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
[...] I did some research and decided to implement some WordPress plugins to help to combat the spam. The first was Spam Karma 2, an anti-spam plugin that helps to eliminate all forms of blog spam. So far so good, no more trackbacks or comment spam have gone live in my blogs. I also installed a Referrer Bouncer plugin to hopefully eliminate all of the junk in my logs. I won’t really be able to easily see if this is working until next month when I have some clear logs to view. [...]
September 25th, 2005 at 6:05 am
[...] Anyway, how did I do it? Simple! I used the Referrer Bouncer plugin and in the referer.txt file, I cuntpastded (lulz) all of the search terms that I deemed sick and disturbing. Here’s an example of some stuff in my .txt file: hot+cat+sex+ass YUGIOHhentai Yautja+cock+sex+ass hot+silicon+girl silicon+girl pissing-girl.ws 8m.com yu-gi-ohhentai Yautja+sex+cock+ass illegal+porn+galleries princess+peach+hentai princess+peach+porn Super+Mario+Porn i-no+hentai yugioh+hentai [...]
October 5th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
I think the plugin has stopped working for me. Can you remind me how you add domains to the bounced list? I just added one to referer.txt & saved it. When I went to the domain in question & clicked on a link there to my site, I should’ve been bounced back to the original site. Instead, I was taken to my site.
I wonder whether the way the referer.txt file is formatted could be the problem. I noticed that ea. domain name is listed without any punctuation separating them. Shouldn’t there be a semi colon or some punctuation allowing the plugin to distinguish bet. the domains? Maybe I’ve lost the proper formatting I once had for the file?
October 5th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
UPDATE to my last comment. When I view the referer.txt file using Notepad through my ftp client, I see no returns separating the entries. But when I use WP’s own interface to view the file I do see returns separating them. So I recommend only adding domains to referer.txt using the WP interface (or else adding returns to the file when viewed in Notepad or via yr. ftp client).
October 6th, 2005 at 12:58 am
@Richard
You can add domains or any keywords. I even have words like casino.
It simply scans for the text within referrer string, sent by the http client.
Please edit your file using the WP interface to ensure no empty lines in file. In the next version I will remove this requirement, I promise.
October 17th, 2005 at 1:44 pm
[...] Been getting a lot of spam lately — in the hundreds, daily. I’ve already installed the Wordpress Hascash and Referrer Bouncer for quite some time now. [...]
October 25th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
[...] Since installing Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer earlier this month, the referral spam I was accumulating has dwindled to almost nothing! As you can expect, I am very happy about this because my log files were filling up with stuff I don’t want to mention. At any rate, I am unsure if I am unintentionally blocking legitimate traffic. If you’ve been blocked or redirected while trying to reach my site, please let me know the circumstances and I might be able to tweek the configuration. The main factor should be the site you linked from before arriving here. Filed under: blogging, traffic, technology & web by Shane | [...]
October 31st, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Angsuman: I was wondering whether you might have any ideas why I’m seeing this behavior regarding a bounced domain.
I added it to my referer.txt file. When I visit the bounced domain myself & attempt to click on a link there to my site I AM bounced back to the original site (& not allowed access to my own). This is the behavior I want to see. However, I’m still seeing in my site stats visits to my site referred fr. that domain.
How could that be happening?
October 31st, 2005 at 6:12 pm
Add this to my previous comment…is it possible that while at this site those who wish to visit my site are not clicking on the link there to me (which would get them bounced); but rather are pasting my URL link into their browser window? Would this explain how they’re getting around referer bouncer? If so, I wish there was some way to fight this.
October 31st, 2005 at 9:17 pm
@Richard
Can you provide me the url to the site which you intend to bounce? - I will take a look.
November 5th, 2005 at 3:50 am
Hi,
I was so glad to find a plugin like this. However I’m facing a lot of problems getting it to work in WP version 1.5.2. Asuming that that’s the problem, cause
. At some point my own site was complete blanc, and had to restore a number of WP-documents.
Tnks in advance
I’m I right: is the WP version the problem? Please help: with ca. 22.000 not wanted referer hits me and my provider are in desperate need
November 5th, 2005 at 3:53 am
[edit]22.000 not wanted referer hits every day[/edit]
November 5th, 2005 at 4:15 am
It will work in any version of WordPress, upwards compatible.
Please describe the problem in detail and I will take a look.
November 5th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Should the plugin (noreferer.php Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer plugin) still be remain activated after the referer.txt and nrsetup.txt files have been created? Or is activation only nessecary to adjust the referer.txt file (and create the nrsetup.txt file)? The nrsetup.txt file is a blanco file, right?
Thanks.
I cannot describe the earlier problems in details, so I just want to know before I () try again. This plugin does wants to do more then I’m ‘used’ to.
November 5th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
It works now when chmod wp-content to 755 instead of i.e. 711 (which resulted in a blanc page non visible website). BLOND hé
Sorry. All my mistake!! I’ll Let you know what it does to my 22.000 not wanted referer hits
November 5th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Wonderful!
Looking forward to hear about your 22, 000 not wanted hits
November 6th, 2005 at 6:27 am
WP is ‘just’ a part of my website not my entry page. Is there anyway I can get this plugin to work on my not WP-page(s) as well?
Forever thankful in advance
November 6th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
@Marjan
I have a different version which will work on any php enabled website including but not limited to wordpress. So yes it will neatly solve your problem.
I will post it by tommorrow.
November 8th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
That would be perfect.
Please?
I do not want to look brutal, nor do I want to rush you, but…
November 9th, 2005 at 4:46 pm
Your referer bouncer wordks just fine in WP
For my ‘other’ problem:
With help ‘we’ found another solution…, to fix this problem instantly.
Replace the last line with:
RewriteRule \.*$ http:/127.0.0.1/ [R,L]
and you give them a peace of their own cake!
Regards, M.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Actually we do give them a taste of their own medicine. We re-direct them to spam the same site whose ranking they intend to increase by spamming ours. So all they get for their effort is a high bandwidth bill.
With 127.0.0.1 it doesn’t cost them anything even if the spider is stupid anough to search the localhost and also if there is actually a server running.
November 18th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
Would you please, please be so kind to clue me in how to change the referer.txt dynamicly help me otherwise?
Because sofar I’m not doing so well I quess: “Traffic limits are exceeded in this domain…”
November 22nd, 2005 at 2:29 am
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November 23rd, 2005 at 3:35 am
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January 3rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
Hi there,
this plugin is a great idea, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for me, since I’m using a custom referrer.txt file and the same spam sites I have listed there keep showing up in my referrers.
Do you have an idea what could be wrong?
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:38 am
The sites may still show up on log analysers as Apache passes on the request to WordPress which bounces them. However they are getting bounced and spamming themselves
You can manually test to ensure it is working properly:
How to Ensure your Site is Protected by Referrer Bouncer Plugin
January 10th, 2006 at 1:00 am
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March 27th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
thanks so much! really helpful!
April 8th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Last night my blog received 2036 hits from the URL “http:/blog.taragana.com/wp-content/plugins/translator.php”, as displayed in AWstats. I don’t use Wordpress, I use b2evolution and though I’m always looking for solutions to referrer spam, I’ve never seen this page before.
It looks like I’ve been referrer-spammed by a referrer-spam-blocker. Could someone offer any insight as to what might have happened here?
April 8th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
The url simply translates a page to non-English language. If you click on the flags in the top right corner of this page then you get a translated version of this page in your language of choice.
It seems someone is misusing the service and using it to hide their nefarious activities.
Give me a day or two. I will fix it.
April 9th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Bug Report!
Found myself banned by my own site. That is, when I came through my ISP. When I came through my site’s server I got through.
The ability to whitelist certain numbers would be a useful feature.
April 9th, 2006 at 7:53 am
That is definitely not an error with Referrer Bouncer plugin.
Have you checked (in WordPress options) the options to blacklist open proxies?
That might be causing this error. Your office IP has been blacklisted by powers that be.
Referrer bouncer doesn’t selectively ban based on IP addresses.
April 9th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for looking into it. Still boggles my mind what people will do just to try to get their URL somewhere it shouldn’t be…
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April 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
hi there, just would like you to know that your plugin appears on my “most-wanted” list
cheers,
michael
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:30 am
Thanks a ton.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:11 am
thanks a lot for this plugin. i saw that you made a lot of useful plugins:) thank you!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Great plugin..Ths a lot