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Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: ajzz on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 04:55 pm EDT

Ah, going the .htaccess way seems indeed a step more preemptive than using the ban plugin (as things stand now on my site).

Unfortunately, my host is very unhappy enabling .htaccess overrides. This made me question whether something like the ban or Spam-X could be integrated with stats/gus. However, in light of your post, it looks like such integration would not release much load on the server and seems unnecessary. The only benefit i can think of off hand is that a world-readable stats plugin would not provide free links to the next free-dvd-copy .com (google-fed pearl script). But we already have a ban plugin for that.

On a different note, the article you (Dirk) refer to is very useful in general. Is there some place where such informative articles are collected - FAQs? Is something like "Hardening a Geeklog Site" worthy of a support forum topic since it goes beyond installation or plugin help and general stuff?

Thanks,

Ajay

Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, April 28 2005 @ 03:52 pm EDT

The article above is linked from the FAQ entry How can I speed up my Geeklog site?

I do actually intend to write up a similar FAQ entry on security issues, but haven't found the time and inspiration yet ...

bye, Dirk

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