[Metalab Issues] #102: Combat Wiki Spam

[Metalab Issues]

#102: Combat Wiki Spam
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Reporter:  msch        |       Owner:  mzeltner
    Type:  defect      |      Status:  assigned
Priority:  blocker     |  Resolution:
Keywords:  wiki, spam  |
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Comment (by mzeltner):

 Having digged through the logs to see how the bots work their way through
 the wiki, the idea sprung up to use an automatic whitelist setup based on
 specific requests. hop contributed to the idea and said that should be
 possible with just Apache config magic, which it is. There is now an
 automatic RewriteMap whitelist setup that I believe will fend off at least
 some of the bots.

 I tested accessing https://metalab.at/whitelist-testing with non-
 whitelisted and whitelisted IPs and it seems to work fine.

 Current expected behaviour:

 New direct request to https://metalab.at/whitelist-testing -> Forbidden
 Clear cache -> go to https://metalab.at/wiki/ -> Go to https://metalab.at
 /whitelist-testing -> Receive content

 At the moment this shows a forbidden page, but will be doing a redirect to
 https://metalab.at/wiki/Signup-Error - if the text is not appropriate or
 can be improved, please edit it directly!

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Ticket URL: <https://metalab.at/issues/ticket/102#comment:10>
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