How to protect Gallery2 against spammers using spamtrap.org.ua.
Despite the fact that Gallery2 already has quite good protection from spam, this script in general is heavy load. So I suggest use Spamtrap to reduce load.
- Download latest version spamtrap library for PHP, unpack and put spamtrap.php into main dir of gallery. This directory usually contain bootstrap.inc, config.php, main.php.
- If here exist index.php - ok, that file we need. If no - choose bootstrap.inc.
- Make a backup.
- Open selected file in any plain text editor, for example Notepad. Word isn't suitable.
- On second line just after "<?php" paste the code:
//spamtrap.org.ua start
define("SPAMTRAP", "/full/path/to/spamtrap.php");
// spamtrap_karma - it is threshold - how much "dirty" users can visit
// your site. You free to change this constant, so the higher value is,
// the more bots you accept.
// It's strongly recommended to use value greater than 3.
$spamtrap_karma = 4;
if (is_readable(SPAMTRAP)) include(SPAMTRAP);
$response = spamtrap($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]);
//For debug purpose
//echo "<h1>$response (".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"].")</h1>";
if ($response>$spamtrap_karma) {
echo "Spambots are not alloved to visit";
exit;
}
//spamtrap.org.ua end
- How to check: Uncomment debug line and visit your site. "Clean" IP has 0 value of "karma". Responce value "-1" mean error.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 June 2007 )
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