Need Some Examples

Hi,

I just purchased pageblaster and very new to this.  I can already see a speed difference using this.  Very nice.  My question is,  I'm not quite sure how to set up some IP Blocking rules and some User -Agent blocking rules.  Yahoo slurp is regulary taking down my site.  Could someone please provide some examples on how I should go about writing some rules for IP blocking and User-Agent blocking?  Any help I can get is very much appreciated.

Thanks

Jerry

Hi Jerry,
You don't need a rule to block by IP Address or User-Agent. All you need to do is put the IP Address or user agent into those fileds in the config file.

blocked-useragents="Slurp"
blocked-ipaddresses="74.6.30.182"

If you have more than one they should be separated by Semi-colons.
You can also use Regular expressions in those fields.

I wouldn't recommend blocking Slurp though, unless you really don't want your site to be listed in Yahoo's Search index. It may be better to create some entries in your Robots.txt file to keep Yahoo from indexing pages that are causing errors.

Hi,

I'm sorry, I see it now...I should look more closely  at the file....Last question regarding blocked IP's....with the current version, would I need to create a rule to redirect a blocked IP and if so how I would write that?

Thanks again for helping out a new guy!

Jerry

Yes, you can put them in the pageBlaster node of the global config file:

< pageBlaster
        page-param="tabid"
        cache-folder="/DesktopModules/Snapsis/PageBlaster/Cache"
        config-folder="/DesktopModules/Snapsis/PageBlaster/Config"  
        ext-cachekey-parameters="True"     
        cached-roles="" 
        cached-users=""
        cached-languages=""
        blocked-useragents="Slurp"
        blocked-ipaddresses="74.6.30.182"       
        memory-cache-interval="01:00:00:00"
        memory-size-limit="25"
        disk-cache-interval="04:00:00:00"
        disk-size-limit="100"
        compression-algorithm="gzip"
        compression-level="high">

Blocking is different than Redirecting.  When you block a request it sends back a 403 response which tells the browser that it was denied.

If you want to redirect, then you can create a rule to do that, but I don't understand how you would want to re-direct a spider. Where would you want to redirect it to?

Here is a thread that explains how to do a 301 redirect using PageBlaster 3.x+