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(Created page with " <!-- seo --> {{#seo: |title=--title-- |titlemode=replace |description=--description-- }} <!-- /seo --> === Stop the Bandwidth Hogs=== An Apache rewrite rule to block the pesky httpd_User_Agents that slow up my server because of the bandwidth they use up. Add the following lines to your httpd config file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/domainname.conf ''multi-line version'' <pre> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} \ Custom-AsyncHttpClient|EzoicBot|Turnitin|sqlmap|wikiteam3dumpgene...")
 
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=== Stop the Bandwidth Hogs===
=== Stop the Bandwidth Hogs===
An Apache rewrite rule to block the pesky httpd_User_Agents that slow up my server because of the bandwidth they use up.
An Apache rewrite rule to block the pesky httpd_User_Agents that slow up my server because of the bandwidth they use up.
I have built up this list of problem user-agents over months of log analysis.  Most of these agents ignore robits.txt or at best, ignore the crawler-delay command in robots.txt:
<pre>
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 4
</pre>


Add the following lines to your httpd config file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/domainname.conf
Add the following lines to your httpd config file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/domainname.conf