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Arsh Arora
Arsh Arora

Reputation: 61

How to Block All Bots Inluding Google Bot, and All Other Bots With Htaccess

How can i block all Bots with htaccess. All bots means all Bots, Not even Google or any Bot Should Access My Site. I am Using custom index.html Page in my site, and in back-end Wordpress is also installed.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7272

Answers (1)

Muhammed
Muhammed

Reputation: 1612

There is no way to ban all, but you could ban some well known ones. To block Google, Yandex, and other well known search engines, check their documentation, or add HTML robots NOINDEX, nofollow meta tag.

For Google check Googlebots bot doc they have. Or simply add Google bots:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Googlebot [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mediapartners [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^AdsBot [OR]

For .htaccess you will have a long list like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:[email protected] [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [OR]
#... more entries, not showing you the whole list
# as it may contain false positives, find them yourself.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Find the list you want, or check bots pages to see what params they are setting. I found this setting from one of the applications I am running.

Upvotes: 3

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