Ticket #2472 (new enhancement)

Opened 5 months ago

Access log flooded with page not found errors from automated bots

Reported by: koki Owned by: haiku-web
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Website/CMS Version: R1 development
Cc: Blocked By:
Platform: All Blocking:

Description

Per the summary, the Drupal access log is full of page not found errors from automated bots pounding on the website. This must be unnecessarily increasing server CPU load, database activity and bandwidth.

Possible solution: try Bad Behaviour module for Drupal.

Download page: http://drupal.org/project/badbehavior

These BadBehavior files also required: http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/

Features and Benefits of BadBehavior here: http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/documentation/benefits/

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