[support] Rules redirect

[Patrick Avella]

I use the geo_ip module in apache to block china/russia/africa at the web
server level. If you have access you may want to look into it.


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Franz Iberl wrote:
> > Am 06.06.13 08:51, schrieb Roger:
> >> Hi all
> >> Our Drupal 7 site is under constant attack from the Chinese.
> >> In Rails there is an easy way to redirect pretty much anything off site
> >> or to other page/s not in the system and hide the url.
> >>
> >> Also is there a better way of hiding the url of user login
> >>
> >> I have tried to set up Rules in Drupal 7 to simply redirect [Page not
> >> found] responses  back to the front page or better still out of the
> >> Drupal 7 system completely.
> >> I've had no success.
> >>
> >> Can someone please direct me on how to set up such a Rule on our site.
> >
> > I have similar problems with lots of spam hits, feeling like a DoS-attac.
> >
> > My "solution" to date is IP-blocking in the .htacess.
> >
>
> You could use the ip blocking tool in Drupal itself instead of .htaccess.
>
> > Drupal is helpful with statistics for that, the reports page has an
> entry for the most active visitors (statistics enabled, of course) with the
> IP-numbers shown.
> >
>
> Yes, this I use too.
>
> > All entries with time sum near (or even higher than) the google-bot
> normally are spammers. The ip-nr looked up in the searche engine mostly
> gives enough information to justify ip-blocking.
> >
>
> Correct, several accesses within the same second is a good clue.
>
> > The most effective way is the .htacess (manual work necessary, yes), if
> you cannot use .htacess, Drupal can block IPs too (from the report I
> mentioned above), but of course this consumes more server time.
>
> There is also the restrict_ip module[1] which does the opposite of
> what the cor ip blocking function does and you have to provide the
> list of allowed addresses, everyone else gets access denied.
>
> [1] https://drupal.org/project/restrict_ip
>
> --
> Earnie
> -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
> --
> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20130606/a09cacf9/attachment.html