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My phpBB somehow attracted hundreds of spambots. I've had to close down registrations and guest posting but I still get 200Kb to 600Kb log growth a day. So I was hoping there is a way to create a file under WAMP of IP's to block or ignore requests from. I'd happily let search bots review me but the ones that post and try to post spam I don't need. I can get the IP's to block from the WAMP log. Please tell me how to have WAMP block them. Thanks in advance.

block ip would not do much good since spammers's soft will always auto change fake ip, so I suggest you google for some spam blockers add-on to your phpbb instead

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/08/2009 01:44PM by yfastud.

As you've described another form of virus activity, I think having a programmable IP blocker is in order - especially since my phpBB is just a fraction of the problem. I'm hosting 3 different websites on an old one core desktop under Wamp and the phpBB is just a small deletable part of one of them. So I need a generic IP block, not just a phpBB block.

So how / where would you suggest I start looking for this feature? Which .php file could it be added to if I do it?

you can use htaccess file or might interested in this thread
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Thanks much! I have built a list of over 50 bad bot IP's for my htaccess file but two questions came up.

One is how can I be certian they are blocked since some log entries of blocked sites have repeated again after adding their IP, exiting Wamp, then starting again to make sure it reads the file?

The second question is, does the abbreviation of IP's documented in the latest Apache docs work in this situation or do we need to wait for a future Wamp for this to work?

deny from 194.8.75 #DOES THIS ONE INCLUDE ALL THE FOLLOWING?

deny from 194.8.75.92 #Great Britain
deny from 194.8.75.96 #Great Britain
deny from 194.8.75.141 #Great Britain
deny from 194.8.75.206 #Great Britain

you need


order allow, deny
allow from all
Deny from 194.8.75



this will block all 256 ips of that subset on wamp

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Thank you both very much!

I now have a list of over 900 blocked IP's attempting to access my /BBS files. If anyone wants the list, say so and I'll post it, or email, your choice.

Some do it even after they request the robot.txt file which directs them away. Had I known this earlier I could have saved earlier logs and blocked many more.

Some may be inappropriately blocked, perhaps search engines, but mostly it's spammers. On the full subset blocks I did it only when 5 entries or more were from the same subset.