Comments Problems II

The mysterious comments loop phenomenon seems to have struck again - on Kim’s post immediately below this one. Please bear with us as we try to fix it so that you can comment there if you wish.

Update (by Rob): I’ve fixed the problem — unfortunately, it was caused by the referrer spam bouncer plugin. I’ll try to find a new one, but until then Mark will have to sift through the viagra and incest spam when drafting his next “humorous google search terms” post…

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6 Responses to “Comments Problems II”


  1. 1 Cameron RileyNo Gravatar

    Rob, You can stop referer spam through apache. In the httpd.conf (or .htaccess) file, under add;

    SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “.*(badword|nextbadword|etc).*” spam
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from env=spam

  2. 2 Cameron RileyNo Gravatar

    Bit got chewed. Under <Directory />

  3. 3 RobertNo Gravatar

    Cam: I’ll have a look when I get time. Thanks.

  4. 4 Cameron RileyNo Gravatar

    Rob, No worries. Email me if you want me to cut and paste what I have in my apache conf files.

  5. 5 Tyrannosaurus RexNo Gravatar

    man, it eats my helpful link-laden posts about linux and tux the penguin, but lets in the crap from mynicemailscat.com … just saying!

  6. 6 MarkNo Gravatar

    Not any more, it doesn’t. Well, off to watch Latho…

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