http://wiki.nginx.org/index.php?title=Referrer_Spam_Blocking&feed=atom&action=history 2013-06-19T15:23:16Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.0 http://wiki.nginx.org/index.php?title=Referrer_Spam_Blocking&diff=860&oldid=prev 2010-11-23T06:47:17Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Referer spam is where someone will hit your site with the referer section of the browser request set to be a site they want to drive traffic to. The idea is to have links to those sites how up in any public stats pages you may have - which are common for blogs and forums.<br /> <br /> With NGINX you can use the valid_referers module to handle this:<br /> <br /> &lt;geshi lang=&quot;nginx&quot;&gt;<br /> location / {<br /> valid_referers none blocked *.badreferer1.com badreferer2.com *.badreferer3.com badreferer4.net;<br /> <br /> if ($invalid_referer) {<br /> return 403;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> &lt;/geshi&gt;<br /> <br /> Where you replace the badreferer domains with the referer domains that you wish to block.</div>

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