Prevent Malicious Bots/Spiders From Accessing Your Site Using .htaccess

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:44 Written by Khaleel Demeri Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:00

There are various types of bots and spiders that transverse sites for different reasons. Among them activities such as email harvesting and other malicious activity. By using a .htaccess file, you can block the majority of well know malicious bots.

Bad bots typically ignore the wishes of your robots.txt file, so you’ll want to ban them using means such as .htaccess. The trick is to identify a bad bot. Below is a useful code block you can insert into .htaccess file for blocking a lot of the known bad bots and site rippers currently out there.

How to Create an Access Database with File Manager in WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:39 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 1 May 2013 12:00

This will help when developing small applications with Access database, which offers several benefits for data management. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create an access database with the file manager in WebsitePanel:

1. Log into WebsitePanel.

2. Click the File Manager icon:

mojoPortal Tips: The Importance of Controlling Content Access by Role

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:37 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 4 April 2013 12:00

When you have a customer who wishes to control access to content, it’s best to sort out the most extensible and supportable way of doing so. Thankfully, mojoPortal provides an easy solution to allow content access control.

Initially, the customer wanted to be able to simply issue a single user name and password to provide content access; while this might be initially easier to manage, it’s a huge security and data capture leak. Here’s why:

Outlook,550 Access denied – Invalid HELO name

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:31 Written by Saravanan Shanmugam Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:00

Are you getting the following error while mailing from OUTLOOK 2007

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Cannot send the message. Verify the e-mail address in your account properties.
The server responded: 550 Access denied – Invalid HELO name
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nopCommerce Tips: How to Access Your Live nopCommerce Database

Last Updated on Friday, 8 February 2013 04:26 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:00

nopCommerce has a very robust and extensive administration panel, but every now and again, you’ll find that data needs to be updated or corrected in a way that’s not supported by nopCommerce directly. It’s at those times that you may find it preferable to edit the database directly – today, we’ll talk about how to do just that.