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 Protect Your WordPress from Being Exploited

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 December 2012 12:00 Written by Tabaré Patiño Sunday, 23 December 2012 12:00

You might be wondering how to protect your WP installation; therefore I’m leaving you some helpful tips/plugins. Use them at your own discretion:

How to Prevent the Shopping Cart Logging Out Automatically in TomatoCart

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:42 Written by Jack Yin Friday, 12 October 2012 12:00

Some community users face the following problem:

1. The shopping cart logs me out of the store section if I remain idle for 15 minutes.
2. The shopping cart logs me out of the store section if I sleep and wake the computer.

After thinking about it, it is necessary to let the store owner sets this time duration in the admin panel. It means the store owner could decide how much time to make the shopping cart logout automatically.

A simple way to resolve your issue via modifying the code as follows:

– Find the session.php in ‘includes/classes’ directory.

– Find the following code:

Even More Dolphin 7 Spam Prevention Tips

Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 03:08 Written by Mscott Saturday, 26 November 2011 12:00

In the past, we have talked about using the built in Dolphin 7 Anti-Spam tools. Today, we will cover a few more tips to help block the spammers who will try and flood your Dolphin 7 website.