Moz (rogerbot)

Glad to help:

1) “How do I allow this bot in?”

You can use the free addon plugin to add the following rule:

$bbq_whitelist_user_agent_items = array('rogerbot');

2) “why is it blocking this bot at the first place?”

Because “rogerbot” is the reported user agent for a wide variety of malicious and/or nuisance requests. Moz Pro may not actually be making the requests, which is one reason why it’s possible to add/remove patterns from the firewall.

I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further infos.

Jeff,

Just to be clear, is this correct?

# egrep '^\$bbq_whitelist_user_agent_items' ./wp-content/plugins/bbq-whitelist.php 
$bbq_whitelist_user_agent_items   = array();
$bbq_whitelist_user_agent_items = array('rogerbot');
# 

much appreciated)

also, as user’s feedback, maybe let user make changes via interface instead of editing php code?)

Yes that works, or you can just do like:

$bbq_whitelist_user_agent_items = array('rogerbot');

Should work fine.

Thanks also for your feedback, much appreciated.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Jeff Starr.