IP or user agent blacklisting

Hi @sunnydharmkumar,

Htaccess rules work on the Apache server only. Nginx, Lightspeed etc server do not support the htaccess rules.

So we have moved the Block IP / User agent feature to PHP based firewall rules.

wp-content/uploads/aios/firewall-rules/settings.php will have those IPs / User agent saved and in wp-config.php aios-bootstrap.php included which will check against blocked IPs/ user agent and disallow access and will show 403 forbidden page.

Hello, Thanks for your reply and the information. I have found settings.php file in the location where you have mentioned it, and also the list of IPs and agents that I have blocked in your plugin.

But in wp-config.php I have not found inclusion of aios-bootstrap.php. I don’t know if I am checking the right file here.

I have a question related to it.

Here I found a list of BAD Bots ( https://gist.github.com/dvlop/fca36213ad6237891609e1e038a3bbc1#file-gistfile1-txt ). It’s a huge list (about 1800+ of BAD Bots) and some bots are multiple times alongwith their versions/.

My question is

1. If we block that number of BAD Bots, it will make any bad impact on server performance?

2. What is best, blocking BAD Bots using plugin as yours or using robots.txt file?

You are an expert in this field. Kindly advice.

Thanks and Regards

Hi @sunnydharmkumar

Yes, you can use 1800 bad bots to block it might not take that much ( it should be in milliseconds) to compare if you have enough server resource.

You should not use robots.txt as robots.txt is for to parse by bots. if it is a bad bot it will not follow the robots.txt

If you can reduce those bots ( do not use duplicate or contains the another botname as part of it) . It will be good as each request will have that bot compared.

Regards

Hello! Thank you for your suggestion. I will remove the duplicate bots to reduce it.

Yes agree with you that bad bots will not follow robots.txt instructions.

Some bots are consuming lot of server resources. The best idea is to block such ip addresses.

Thanks again for your support and clarification.

Regards

Hi @sunnydharmkumar

Would you mind writing a quick five-star review on www.remarpro.com?

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Hello! Thank you, I have submitted my review. Thanks for your support and guidance.

Regards

Hello @hjogiupdraftplus ,

also from my side thanks for the great plugin. We were using it on a number of (small non-profit) websites since years. And it always worked like a charm.

Regrettably the ip/user agent function you describe has not been moved from “Firewall Tab > Block & Allow List” to the -> “php-functions page”, as it is not visible there anymore! The only thing that shows up there anymore are the “wp-rest-api functions” – the rest is gone for good… this happened after the last update couple of weeks ago…

I really wonder what has happened to this great aios-sec plugin that helped such a lot to keep spammers out of the wp-pages. Now, since this v.5.38 the helpful function is gone, the old race starts again and my page gets flooded again by people that where to keep out easily before by just adding their ip or agent.

Same thing is happening to other functions…this time only WHITE-Listings are still there (which btw are more or less unusable). Much more interesting is BLACKlisting.

The more the vistor-logstop on -> Tools-page is not working right, as when used the admin gets also cast out and there is almost no chance to get in again. Only a great number of actions (databse etc) logged me in again…

Additionally the import/export functions are missing the button to import anything is not there …what the f…?

I dont understand why changing so many things at once render a super good plugin “almost unusable” (…not really but you know what i mean…still there is still a good number of things left of course).

But please(!!!) could you implement that “Add-to-IP-blacklist-function” again in one of the next updates?
Only yesterday i had 16 Spammer-Login tries that wanted to hack into the wp-admin area (which i already had safe moved somewhere else….).

I know its a free plugin and surely the pro-Version has to be sold somehow. But we are no big “make money-company” but run serveral small community websites … it`l be great to have such useful plugin again to stay safe. Thank you!

Best regards, Chrys

Hi @chrys24,

If you have AIOS 5.3.8, the latest installed WP security > Firewall > Block and allow list tab have option to add ips to blacklist.

https://snipboard.io/C94QlM.jpg

Regards