Referral Spam Blacklist
Blacklist referral spam on a server level with Nginx.
There are two primary components to this repository:
blacklist.conf
which is drop-in ready to begin blocking referral spamgenerate.sh
which is able to combine multiple blacklists to produce a clean, workable master blacklist
Downloading
If you just want the blacklist, see the latest release. Otherwise, if you need to make changes to the blacklist, clone the repo with:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/chauncey-garrett/referral-spam-blacklist.git
Usage
With blacklist.conf
in /etc/nginx
, include it globally from within /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
:
http {
include blacklist.conf;
}
Add the following to each /etc/nginx/site-available/your-site.conf
that needs protection:
server {
if ($bad_referer) {
return 444;
}
}
Combining other blacklists
src/generate.sh
can be used to expand and/or update blacklist.conf
from multiple blacklists. It will parse several lists, sorting them alphabetically and removing duplicate entries, before generating a new conf
file.
Subsequent lists should be formatted in the same manner as src/blacklist-piwik.txt
. Furthermore, additional lists should be named in a similar manner: blacklist-name1.txt
and blacklist-name2.txt
.
- Add the additional list(s) to
src/
. - Edit
src/generate.sh
to add the new file(s) to the array - Run
./generate.sh
from within thesrc/
directory
The newly generated blacklist.conf
will be located in the root of the git repo.
Updating Piwik's blacklist
NOTE: Piwik's blacklist is included via a submodule. Assuming you cloned the repository with
git clone --recursive
, these instructions will work.
From the root of the git directory:
cd external/piwik-referrer-spam-blacklist/
git pull origin master
Finally, you can update blacklist.conf
with generate.sh
:
cd src/
./generate.sh
Testing if the blacklist works
Check that the proper response (403) is given:
curl --referer "http://www.referral-spam.com" http://yoursite.com
Blacklist contributions
Contributions to the blacklist itself should be directed to piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.
If you know of another (vetted) referral spam blacklist that should be considered as well, please let me know by opening an issue.
Like it?
If you've found this project useful, would you consider sending your support?
Author
The author of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.
Chauncey Garrett - @chauncey_io |