jonmccune

Hi moshu,

Thanks for your reply. I suppose I was really trying to ask why it is necessary for wordpress to keep its URL in the database. It seems that using the hostname in the referrer info would work.

It seems that it’s a fair amount of trouble to try to make things work from multiple hostnames. I’ll just use iptables.

Thanks,
-Jon

I see. However, I have “Allow link notifications from other websites (pingbacks and trackbacks)” disabled in Options : Discussion. So perhaps it is with respect to pingbacks and trackbacks that I need to change some properties of my older posts?

In Options : Discussion, it does say “These settings may be overridden for individual articles.”. I believe my old articles have those settings ‘grandfathered in’.

I am interested in preventing these kinds of discussion, rather than filtering the spam.

Thanks,
-Jon

That global option is indeed the one I changed. However, I get emails from the wordpress software asking me to moderate a comment. This only happens for older posts that I made before I enabled the global “Users must be logged in and registered to comment” option. The emails look like this one, though I changed the hostname:

A new comment on the post #24 “Widgets!” is waiting for your approval
https://myhost.domain.com/wordpress/?p=24

Author : Cheap Cialis (IP: 88.208.211.186 , server88-208-211-186.live-servers.net)
E-mail :
URL : https://www.google.com/base/a/1508697/D15112476358064600609
Whois : https://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=88.208.211.186
Comment:
Cheap Cialis…

Is that a template? If not your a great designer!…

Approve it: https://myhost.domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php?action=mac&c=2782
Delete it: https://myhost.domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php?action=cdc&c=2782
Spam it: https://myhost.domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php?action=cdc&dt=spam&c=2782
Currently 22 comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:
https://myhost.domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/moderation.php

Now, I believe there was no user logged in. I only have about 5 users, and I know each of them.

I think that I should never get one of these comment-approval emails unless a new (malicious) user has registered first.

Does this clarify my problem at all?

Thanks,
-Jon