Extension:WikiBanHammer

WikiBanHammer Automatically trap and block bots that don't obey robots.txt rules

Trouble shooting
Protect Your MediaWiki with a Blackhole for Bad Bots I decided to create an MediaWiki Extension from a PHP script that i found on a website at https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/ If you are better at building this extension please create a branch. I will slowly add the files and instruction on how i installed this PHP on to my MediaWiki website. If you would like to see how WikiBanHammer blocks spam bots visit my MediaWiki website www.jehovahsays.net explore random pages & then visit www.jehovahsays.net/blackhole/ And you will see that if you were a bot that you would be banned from all my MediaWiki pages globally. Warning! WikiBanHammer can ban you from your own MediaWiki website. In order to unban yourself you will need to open the file named blackhole.dat and remove your ip address and save. How to install & configure MediaWiki Extension:WikiBanHammer Step 1. Download the .zip unzip WikiBanHammer.zip rename the unzipped folder named WikiBanHammer-master to WikiBanHammer. copy and paste WikiBanHammer into your MediaWiki extensions folder. You can also use command line Change Directory to your extensions folder git clone https://github.com/jehovahsays/WikiBanHammer.git Step 2. Use Notepad++ to edit these next few files. open the folder named blackhole. open the file named blackhole.php edit line 39 if you need to allow legit bots to index your website. after you finish doing that scroll down to line 66 and edit the contact url or email just in case a human got banned. save the file blackhole.php when your done. Next open the file named index.php edit lines 37 & 38 to your email if you need to receive alerts everytime a bot is banned. Next scroll down to line 203 change the title of the web page banned users will see and line 216 & line 238 to change the contact information just case again a human quote on quote happen to get banned. save the file index.php when your done. Step 3. copy the file robots.txt and the folder named blackhole into your root folder for example after you copy and paste you website url should look like this www.example.com/robots.txt www.example.com/blackhole/ blackhole.dat must be server-writable log file (serves as the blacklist) Step 4. Open you mediawiki installation folder open the folder named includes open the file named Webstart.php scroll down to line 35 and add this code include(realpath(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT')) .'/blackhole/blackhole.php'); save the file when your done. Step 5. Add the code below to your Localsettings.php wfLoadExtension( 'WikiBanHammer' );

Step 6. finally the last step open your mediawiki folder open the folder named skins open the folder named Vector open the file named VectorTemplate.php scroll down to line line 97 add this html code to all your pages  Usually only robot could see this text. But, if you can see this text. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site! Testing the WikiBanHammer Test WikiBanHammer by visiting blackhole open your browser and visit www.yourdomain.com/blackhole/ you should see a you are banned page navigate to your mediawiki pages and you should see your banned on every page. to unban yourself open the folder named blackhole open the file named blackhole.dat look for your ip delete your ip and save the file and you are unbanned. To make WikiBanHammer stonger redirect all of your error pages to the folder /blackhole/ I will make a video for those who need visual verification & confirmation. that i found on a website at https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/ If you are better at building this extension please create a branch. I will slowly add the files and instruction on how i installed this PHP on to my Mediawiki website.