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Blocking Bots with Nginx (rknight.me)
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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 8 months ago

Extra fun nginx thing: don't use 403, use 444.

That's a nginx special response that doesn't actually send anything back, it just drops the connection and moves on.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

robots.txt is a bit like asking bots to not visit my site; with .htaccess, you’re not asking

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

My robots.txt has definitely only partially helped. I'll have to see if I can do the same with my Caddy setup.