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How to Block Spam IP Addresses in PrestaShop?
I’m Alastair Brian, Today I am going to discuss that how spammers can effect your PrestaShop store and the possible way to go through out. Like this...
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Hey, what’s up?
I seen plenty of traffic from a suspicious source like porn sites and social share buttons.
These were the Spammers
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Yesterday, when I was checking the traffic analytics of my PrestaShop store
•Stealing personal information or Email addresses •Get traffic on their own sites. •Get back-links It’s amazing to know that Spammers are paid for this spamming.
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What Spammers Wants,
Most simple disadvantage is that they are eating your sever resources thus increasing loading time of your site.
Severe attacks includes hacking of your website.
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How Spammers effect you
Spam has no limits and they can effect any site. It does not matter that your store is old or fresh, you are in the approach of Spammers until you do some necessary steps to avoid spam.
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Spam has no limits
We will tell you that how you can detect and block spam on your store.
This will be a user guide for you!
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In Next Slides
Your first task should be to find the suspicious IPs through any of the given way
•PrestaShop Backend stats •Using chat software like Zopim •Ask IP stats from hosting providers •From apache/php error log
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How to find IPs?
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Once you have decided about SPAM IPs, next task is how to block them? Discussing here top 3 ways; •Block using FTP Access •Block using .htaccess file •Block using modules
•Login to cPanel of your store •Go to IP Deny Manager •Add an IP to deny •Save
However, some hosting provides does not provide this option.
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Block Using FTP Access
•Go to .htaccess file and place this code there; order allow,deny deny from 192.168.44.201
deny from 224.39.163.12 deny from 172.16.7.92
allow from all
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Block Using .htaccess file
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.htaccess file is a quite sensitive, editing it wrongly may result into any loss of traffic Therefore, some hosting providers don’t allows to edit it.
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Problem with .htaccess file and cPanel
If you’re not expert enough or hosting provider is not allowing access to edit .htaccess.
Then you should consider installing rd some 3 party module.
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Now What to do?
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One such module is PrestaShop Block GEO location Country IP Module that allows adding spam IPs in a block list. Some additional features supported by this plugin are; - Show custom message to block IPs - Redirect to other websites.
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Adding IPs in Block List
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Adding IPs in Block List
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Block Countries
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Show Custom Message to Blocked Users
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Redirect to other URLs
If you’re really annoyed of auto bots and spammers
It’s time to block them with these easy methods discussed here.
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Final Words
Thank You
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