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 Add a New SEO URL (Rewrite Rule) in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by Richi González Monday, 13 May 2013 12:00

Hello,

Today I will show you how to add a new Rewrite Rule to your Clip-Bucket powered website, such as /myaccount, /videos, etc. You must have a page previously created, of course. This can be adapted to any website that uses Rewrite Rules (apache mod_rewrite).

1. Let’s say you have a page called my_earnings.php, and you regularly access it by going to http://yoursite.tld/my_earnings.php and we want the SEO URL to just be /myearnings.

SocialEngine 4: Speed Up SE4 Via .HTACCESS

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by Andrew Cross Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:00

To Help SE Preform better you can add this coding to your .HTACCESS file.

How to Enable Short URLs for Your phpFox Website

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 03:51 Written by Stephanie Brown Wednesday, 24 October 2012 12:00

This article will focus on enabling short urls for your phpFox website.

By default, phpFox does not use short urls. This means that your website’s url’s will have a string that looks similar to this:

http://yoursite.com/index.php?do=/user/login/

using short urls, the url will look similar to this:

http://yoursite.com/user/login/

Short urls look cleaner, and are easier for your members to use.

Creating/Editing the .htaccess file

Easy Steps for Securing Your CMS Made Simple Installation

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:10 Written by Goran Ilic Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:30

With every online available software or CMS system, there comes a problem with vulnerability and hacking attempts. If you follow these few easy steps, you are able to add some extra security to your CMS Made Simple installation!

1. Use better login names and passwords