How to Block Spammers at Login in Elgg

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:12 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 26 August 2011 12:00

This article gives a step by step guide on how to block spammers at login in Elgg.  This brand new tool against spammers for Elgg is called Spam Login Filter. It is a plugin that blocks registrations using external services and internal domain blacklist. To install this anti-spammer tool, follow these steps:

How to Protect Your Elgg Blogs from Spammers with Mathcaptcha

Last Updated on Friday, 8 July 2011 11:29 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Monday, 30 May 2011 08:06

In this article I will show you how to protect your Elgg blogs from spammers with Mathcaptcha.

Elgg: Protecting Upgrade.php

Last Updated on Friday, 8 July 2011 10:46 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 12 December 2010 07:54

What is upgrade.php?  Upgrade.php is a file that flushes the cache that elgg uses. It runs code and database upgrades. By default, in any regular Elgg install, anyone can run this file.  This is not good. We don’t want anyone running this file.

Protecting Your Elgg Site

Last Updated on Friday, 8 July 2011 10:06 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:24

Some people are telling Elgg users to disable a plugin called “HTMLAWED plugin” ( a plugin that comes as default in every Elgg install) so that they can embed content. This is not recommended.

The plugin mentioned above stops users from adding arbitrary HTML/PHP code onto your site that could break your site design and might even allow phishers to embed code in order to steal their passwords.

How to Enable Hotlink Protection for Your Website Using cPanel

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2011 02:34 Written by Arian Jahansouz Monday, 13 September 2010 03:00

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to enable hotlink protection for your website and allow some domains to access your website from your cPanel.

Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Go to Security and click Hotlink Protection