All posts tagged .htaccess

10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog

by Sam on March 20, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 33 Comments

As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately Secure & Protect WordPress
133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible to ensure that our sites are never exploited.

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Easily block spammers’ IP using a .htaccess file

by Sam on February 26, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 2 Comments

I’ve been going through my website traffic statistics for my blog and noticed some spikes in activity in terms of page hits, that could not be accounted for as legitimate user traffic. So within my webalizer tool (A free tool used to monitor domain traffic and activity) I decided to hunt down the source of this rise in activity. Here I found IP addresses that have accessed my site and found the culprit. This particular IP registered a total of 3,000 hits in one day. I then used a free ‘who is’ online service (Honey Pot Project or Whois.net) to check who owns the IP and I discovered that this is a spammer / scammer. So let’s get to blocking. Continue reading →