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Apr 16th, 2007, 12:25 PM
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creating and useing an access log
Hi all.
I have a problem where I have a user that is adding spam content to one of my websites. The website is built as a community project for users of a software called anim8or. Users are allowed to add links to their favorite tutorials on using the software and so on. I had to stop working on the site, as I have been battling this spammer, who keeps adding multiple links to adult content and cialis and viagra type sites. I have made it so that whenever someone adds an entry to the database, it gives me their ip address. And I can block that particular ip address. As you know most people do not have a static ip address. Anyway, I resolved the ip address and found out that the isp for this person is a company called layered technology, and that they have an abuse policy. The company is willing to take action but they require that I give them the portion of "httpd access log". Apparently, I do not have one on my server. Here is the direct email that I recieved from the enforcement team. Quote:
My site is on a linux server, and I have built it all from scratch using PHP. Any ideas would be great, thanks. Sage
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Apr 16th, 2007, 12:41 PM
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See your Apache config file (custom logs), or the Apache site for more detailed information. Presumes you're using Apache, of course.
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Apr 16th, 2007, 2:52 PM
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I have had similar issues on my site from the same domain. IF you are running Apache, you can try looking for the log file named /var/log/httpd/access_log. Here is an example:
[root@pandora httpd]# pwd /var/log/httpd [root@pandora httpd]# cat access* | grep layered 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:33 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4753 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:34 -0500] "GET /guestbook HTTP/1.1" 301 321 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:35 -0500] "GET /guestbook/ HTTP/1.1" 200 482 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:35 -0500] "GET /guestbook HTTP/1.1" 301 321 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:36 -0500] "GET /guestbook/ HTTP/1.1" 200 482 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 26.153.36.72.reverse.layeredtech.com - - [20/Mar/2007:12:28:37 -0500] "GET /books.html HTTP/1.1" 200 885 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" In attempts to block them, you can add this in /etc/hosts.deny: ALL: layeredtech.com And/Or this in the .htaccess of the directory that's being hammered: order allow,deny deny from layeredtech.com allow from all
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