Mitchell Krog

You should be testing your https site, Nginx is telling visitors to redirect from http to https. This is your Nginx config and nothing to do with the blocker. I...

Post some log samples of what their bot is doing. Have you added their IP's to https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker/blob/master/bots.d/blacklist-ips.conf ?? GitHubmitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blockerNginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware,...

Edit your `bots.d/blacklist-user-agents.conf` file and add the following at the bottom (assuming you want to block all of these) ``` # ------------ # MY BLACKLIST # ------------ "~*(?:\b)proximic(?:\b)" 3; "~*(?:\b)comscore\.com(?:\b)"...

Some of those ARE legitimate, you need to only block the one's actually scraping your content. (proximic, comscore and linkfluence are legit so OK) so just block PhantomJS (very commonly...

The blocker is not configured properly, it is issuing `200 OK` and not `444`

Post your vhost configuration, note we do not block any blank user agent name, too risky. In this case you have to start blocking them by IP address

Is it blocking them now or not? Your vhost is your nginx `server {}` block for the web site

@RealSuprim your vhost is everything for your domain between `server { and }` example: ``` server { listen *:80; listen [::]:80; server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com; location / { # Block Bad...

Can I see the contents of `include common/locations.conf;` You say the blocker is blocking pocketparser but not others? Which others?

To block your own referrers add them to https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker/blob/master/bots.d/custom-bad-referrers.conf so add ` "~*(?:\b)mygoaltv\.com(?:\b)" 1;` and keep adding new referrers as you find them. Read the main readme [about monitoring your...