Banning Baidu through htaccess?

How to ban Baidu through .htaccess and where exactly do I put this code in .htaccess now that I have vbseo? I only get about 10 visitors a month from China anyway and I have close to 15 bots from Baidu all over the site all day for months now. These are just a few of their bots. If I have to ban China entirely is fine with me.

baiduspider-123-125-66-76.crawl.baidu.com
baiduspider-123-125-66-93.crawl.baidu.com
baiduspider-123-125-66-66.crawl.baidu.com

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^baiduspider [NC] 
RewriteRule .* - [F]

should do the trick

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^baiduspider [NC] 
RewriteRule .* - [F]

should do the trick

Thanks for that Brian. I suppose I have to put that following the Vbseo.com code right at the bottom right? or at the top? Sorry I have no clue about this and have screwed up this file before and have had site problems.

That should go in your htacess file, right above the sitemap rule

Great. Thanks a lot Brian.

Brian, the Baidu bot (baiduspider-220-181-7-64.crawl.baidu.com) is getting in somehow. Can you please look at my .htaccess file below? This is my exact .htaccess file. Thanks for your time.

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^baiduspider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

the code is correct. Perhaps it's spoofing it's useragent?

I'm not sure if it will still record a hit. with going to [F] which basically means fail, it will still be on your site, but will see a 401

Brian what would the code look like now if I want to ban an ip address from another bot along with the baidu spider? The ip address from apparently a forum scraper s below:

142.166.170.100

and this is what I have now:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^baiduspider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

You can add it:

order allow,deny
deny from 142.166.170.100
allow from all


right under:
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Hello, Sorry to but in.

I've had this bot all over my site for ages, should I be banning it?

Baidu is one of Chinas main search engines now that Google have pulled out.
So if your after hits, it can still be of use.
I was monitoring the hits from China on my own forum and was not impressed with what most hits from China, were trying to do.
So I banned the whole continent.
I tried robots text etc to reduce Baidu hitting my forum and got fed up in the end.

Hi,
best thing to stop Chinese Traffic is to write an article of the Human Rights in China and Tibet.
The Chinese Firewall will do the Rest.

Christian

Originally Posted by CThiessen

Hi,
best thing to stop Chinese Traffic is to write an article of the Human Rights in China and Tibet.
The Chinese Firewall will do the Rest.

Christian

LOLz

Can't resist to say it !

Originally Posted by CThiessen

Hi,
best thing to stop Chinese Traffic is to write an article of the Human Rights in China and Tibet.
The Chinese Firewall will do the Rest.

Christian

Reminds me of that story of the semitruck stuck underneath a bridge and they had a lot of construction workers, mechanics, policemen, firefighters trying to get the truck unstuck, trying to pull it out unsuccessfully for hours, and there came a little boy and said to the policeman, why don't you guys take the air out of the tires? LOL! Policeman went running to the guys laughing and they were able to pull the truck out. I think it was a true story.

LOL. I'll create a post on human rights to see if it works!