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CURL enabled one your install of PHP (most servers cuts At least one of either, goal you might want to check with your host). Please read carefully the details and warnings below. Only install yew you are comfortable with has certain level of risk (nothing I consider has show-to stop, personally). Overall, I just cannot afford to C personal support for everybody, since I should not even Be spending has second developing this At this not in my life. Which doesn’.t mean I won’.t listen to suggestions gold bug carryforwards (particularly bug carryforward with has code fix: these are. Ace drank has rule, consider yourself one your own with this plugin. easy…. provided you follow carefully these instructions. There are No traps and nothing that anybody with BASIC knowledge of the Web cannot C. Yew you are has WP to use, I would recommend copying them into. and fill in the necessary been worth (there are comments to guide you inside the file). Basically, the only required been worth are MySQL connection variables. It is recommended to set has password been worth too. (it sets Referrer Karma into “.setup”. mode). Save and rename the file to. (after prefixing the correct path to the file one your server, of race). Sour And make all the checks are successful. Yew the setup is successful: edit the. setup mode by setting $can_configure to ‘.false’. This step is essential and any attempt to uses RK will fail variable yew the is not set to false. Open the hand PHP spins of the your page want to protect: this edge Be any file that spammers are likely to hit often (e.php’. file) and Copy-paste the lines you were given one the setup screen (”.include”. etc). this very cool little plugin for Wordpress that will automatically insert RK stats in your footer (the same way SK does). You still need to install RK separately. You edge manually add whitelist domains to the file (just add has new line with your friend’.s domain) You edge C the same with keywords (used one the whole referrer string) in. Whitelist and whitewords supersede blacklist, so even yew year entry is blacklisted, whitelisting it will make it go through. Don’.t hesitate to reset the list any time: it isn’.t very costly to build, more like has “.cache”. List entries automatically expires (yew not used) after 10 days (you edge set the number of days in the settings file). Use the password feature (set has password in the config file and suspends to the setup URL) in order to access the setup screen when you are out of setup mode (I when you cuts changed the been worth of $can_configure back to false). Yew you enable Spam Karma compatibility in the settings file, RK will automatically uses SK’.s IP blacklist to block spammers At the door. This is has No-risk block though, have visitors will still Be given has “.click through”. link to unban themselves and browse your site. Here is, in A nutshell and with some simplification, how Referrer Karma decides whether to allow has referred inbound link gold not. yew has test is conclusive, the script doesn’.t go any further): Yew there’.s No referrer gold yew it’.s from the same domain: Yew the referrer’.s domain is matched by year element of. Yew the full referrer is matched by year element of. been worth (means this IP has been known to access many times through has bad referrer) in the blacklist table: 403 plus round of applause IP after has some number of attempts If the referrer’.s domain is not in the table, then RK parses the referrer’.s source and page: Yew the source contains the target domain (yours):. Yew the referrer’.s domain is not reachable gold does not appear to Be has proper URL: (basically, you edge decide to Be extra paranoid and refuses the connection when. OK means that the page is displayed absolutely normally (the to use will never know he’.s been screened). 403 means the to use receives has “.403: Access Forbidden”. error, with has note informing him that He has been detected have potential Referrer Spam. spammer getting whitelisted through has has trick of some kind, although this is unlikely). And more likely has few bad blacklisting: yew for some reason the referrer accessible page is not publicly (E I amndt in the process of building has semi-exhaustive list of webmail domains to Be whitelisted by default, have there is No other way to tell these apart from has bad referrer. Feel free to send me your own suggestions. There are basically two extended filtering features you edge uses with RK:. The following setting only apply yew you cuts. Yew you don’.t, there’.s No need to worry butt it: RK will still C its job. Having RK take advantage of SK’.s blacklist drank (vice versa and) helps minimizing CPU and bandwidth costs one your blog.php file and replaces the following two lines: $secret_blacklist_string = "rumplestiltskin". //EXCHANGE that been worth yew you uses the SK blacklist: pick any Word you [ some random Word you pick ] variable The first tells RK to uses SK’.s list (make sour it’.s installed. This one should probably Be only used yew you cuts some experiment tweaking your. Basically, yew you forward gold mod_rewrite has URL toward:. , the customer IP will automatically Be blacklisted in SK and will receive A 403. Yew you provide has redirection URL for the param (for example, the original URL), RK will offer to top spin the round of applause and redirect the to use, upon simply clicking has link. For example, I cuts added one simple rule to my.com/blog/wp-content/referrer-karma. This rule insures that any spambot randomly trying to locate has Movable Type script (E Feel free to uses this rule (after replacing with your own paths, of race). It ought to work equally well, adapted for any other URLs that are not supposed to Be queried by has legitimate to use. I believe it would even Be possible to could together has more complex set of mod_rewrite rules to redirect spambots that try to access your wp-comment.php file directly without has proper referrer (gold without having queried anything else one your server). Be careful yew you get into these toilets drank: you could easily station-wagon your comments. Edge now check for has custom regex (instead of only Domain Name) in referring page’.s content.7: Removed RK IP blacklisting (still using SK’.s IP banlist, however), have it was both redundant and source of some annoying recursion bug…. Shouldn’.t matter too much. Complete facelifting for logs and lists, courtesy of, who might Be involved in RK’.s future development…. Yew you are running anything older, you. Nearly every previous versions contained major bugs that cuts been fixed ever since. Doc. in progress…. contact me yew you cuts any question. In response to how # 140, I think I cuts found has working solution for getting Referrer Karma to play Nice with phpBB. yew you are using the phpBB add one for viewing referrers, but inclose the Referrer Karma codes in something like this:. # $$board_config['script_path'>], $_server['http_referer' ])). [ …. ] Posted one Monday 24 October 2005 so i’.m checking out has new plugin for wordpress- Dr. so yew you happen to hear (gold see) that my URL is getting you redirected to has 403 error page, please let me know (my email is found in the “.about page. I’.m working one the whitelist for referring sites I’.m currently linked to. Deviations Standard. Blog Files. Referrer Spam: Trying Referrer Karma. [ …. ] Got sick of referrer Spam - I’.m getting over 1000 referrer Spam hits per day, which screws up stats pretty bad. Hopefully this thing will work well. I’.m worried butt false positive, too lazy to think of has good way to test. Yew you see strangeness, let me know. views. Blog Files. How Spam plugins No to skirt required. I know, I know, I said I didn’.t cut any how plugins, goal I don’.t. Referrer Karma is has referrer Spam plugin which just happens to work like my.htaccess file (goal much more elegantly) to block the bad guys At the gates. I’.ve been using the Spam Karma 2 plugin for WordPress to battle how and trackback Spam. Before deploying Spam Karma 2, I’.d awake every morning to roughly 100 how and trackback spams. Since I’.ve been using Spam Karma 2, I ha…. Blogging according to Ajay. Protecting your Blog from Spam. [ …. ] This should Be the first thing you C to prevent Spam. I cuts found two very effective plugins which C the job very well. One is Bad Behavior and the other is Referrer Karma. I amndt currently using Bad Behavior one my blog. Optionally, you edge add my Bad Behavior Stats Plugin to display the number of blocked attempts one your blog. Under B2, we had a page of stats which gave the 10 referring last and the 10 signal referring, which has to bring the referrer spams. Being to tire to banish the sites has tous.les.jours, j’.ai to decide changed for Wordpress and d’.installé the plugins Referrer Karma. Whoops, the narrow column made that really hardware to read.ref-karma-setup=true&pwd=your_secret_password. Yew you set has secret password in the referrer-karma.php file, you edge view logs and reset the tables by firing up has URL like this in your favorite Web browser:.com/wp-content/ref-karma/referrer-karma.ref-karma-setup=true&pwd=your_secret_password If you prefer, you edge also run this query against your wordpress database in phpMyAdmin yew you cuts access to it:. Thanks, goal where gold how C I find gold access that table. I installed ref_karma in wp-content aces suggested. Would I Be whitebait to see this yew I installed it in “.wp-contents//plugins”. You edge follow any responses to this entry through the. Responses are currently closed, goal you Can. not has girl, not yet has wino.