What is going on? Is this some kind of widespread attack?

[SpIdErPiGgY]

I just added that to my put that in my .htaccess, and added the robots.txt to the root. So far, still 503 errors. It's been 10 minutes since I added.

Can take a while for the server to restart the service...

[Traction]

I just added that to my put that in my .htaccess, and added the robots.txt to the root. So far, still 503 errors. It's been 10 minutes since I added.

Can take a while for the server to restart the service...

In the meantime, I'm gonna do that blackhole suggestion.

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One question about Step 4:

Step 4: Include the Blackhole script by adding the following line to the top of your pages (e.g., header.php):

Where's header.php? Do they mean overall_header.html in the Styles directory? I'm not a noob, but they make it unclear.

[skybound]

Yup, looks like phpbb is also suffering. Currently 3082 guests.

[SpIdErPiGgY]

One question about Step 4:

Step 4: Include the Blackhole script by adding the following line to the top of your pages (e.g., header.php):

Where's header.php? Do they mean overall_header.html in the Styles directory? I'm not a noob, but they make it unclear.

I added that in common.php


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require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/startup.' . $phpEx);

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include(realpath(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT')) . '/blackhole/index.php');

[mattash]

just use cloudflare . my site is lightning fast now

[LePaul]

But how?

For example, I'm on a GoDaddy server so its a shared resource - unless you know a way to enter the settings?

[mattash]

i use amazon AWS.
1step for me was signing up cloudflare
2step just following their directions. i went to route 53 who handles the routing of the site (prob something you will see in the go daddy c panel if they have it and changed the routing to go through cloud flare . then when in the cloudflare settings and turned on bot attack.


this is what it looks like southeasternohiopreps.com

[LePaul]

I got through the Cloudflare setup quite easily

The many techs trying to sell me products i dont need on GoDaddy was maddening

When I go to DNS, I see i can't make any edits to CloudFlare

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[SQLnovice]

I think you're in your DNS Records tab. Try the Name Servers tab instead. There you'll be able to change the name servers to Cloudflare's name servers.

[LePaul]

YES!

I changed it!

[dontcoz]

Thank you for all the suggestions, one or all of them worked. The number of bots would go close to 7000 at times and on one of the forums over 9600. Another thing i did that seem to have helped was PHP update to 8.3. Anybody else noticed that PHP version made a diff?

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One question about Step 4:



Where's header.php? Do they mean overall_header.html in the Styles directory? I'm not a noob, but they make it unclear.

I added that in common.php


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require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/startup.' . $phpEx);

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include(realpath(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT')) . '/blackhole/index.php');

Thank you! One last thing:

Step 5: Add a hidden link to the /blackhole/ directory in the footer of your site’s web pages (replace “Your Site Name” with the name of your site):

Which file did you edit for the footer, and where did you put this?

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<a rel="nofollow" style="display:none" href="https://example.com/blackhole/" title="Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!">Your Site Name</a>

[SpIdErPiGgY]

Which file did you edit for the footer, and where did you put this?

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<a rel="nofollow" style="display:none" href="https://example.com/blackhole/" title="Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!">Your Site Name</a>

You can add it somewhere in overall_footer
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</body>
</html>

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You can add it somewhere in overall_footer
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</body>
</html>

Thank you. I'm pretty sure that I did it right, and I've refreshed everything. Site has been working well for the last several hours (since I did your .htaccess edit), so it's hard to tell if it's in effect. I guess no news is good news though, right? Only two Guests.