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How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell (cheapskatesguide.org)

submitted 5 days ago by kjo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.

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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.

Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It seems Anubis’github issues shows many false positives with smartphone browsers. Depending on OP’s target audience it’s worth to hunt for FP

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn't really a good way to identify bots.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here is a mirror https://git.qiuwen.net.cn/Mirror/anubis handle with care

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

It says

403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

Blocking tor is pretty bold, that network is too slow to use for anything but straight up privacy.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

How ironic

I guess you will have to resort to online translators or actual web proxies to read these pages 🙄

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

I just used a bot to read it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

They seem to block archive.today but not archive.org.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Oh interesting! Thank you.