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#21756 stop access via referral website

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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 29 December 2014 04:51 CST

Monday, 29 December 2014 04:13 CST

siflaar
Hello,
This not a problem of something gone wrong, more a option I would like to add to the software.
I like the Admin Tools a lot and it has helped me more than ones to keep my site save.
I have noticed lately that some of my site 'attackers' were coming via the same site. I can see this in my analytics program as 'referral websites'. One of these sites is 'http://buttons-for-website.com'. It seems that there is a website that uses buttons from this website to guide 'attackers' to 'vulnerable' websites.

Is it possible to add an option in the WAF to add referral websites so that if someone is going to my site via this referral website he/she is blocked?

Thanks for your support and I wish you all a fantastic 2015.
Patrick Schouten

 Greetings, Patrick Schouten

Monday, 29 December 2014 04:51 CST

tampe125
Hello Patrick,

you can add a custom rule inside your htaccess file to block visitors coming form a specific website, however most likely it won't work.
The htaccess rule will check the HTTP header; such header could be easily spoofed of changed, so it's not very reliable.
However, if you want you can add this rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} otherdomain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherdomain\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

It could work, but I can't guarantee for it.

Davide Tampellini

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