[tor-relays] How Can I Do This?

[Owen Gunden]

Have you already disabled the auto-running of wp-cron.php, as in this
article?

http://www.boltwebhosting.com/wordpress-optimization/wp-cron-php-how-to-stop-it-from-running-frequently.html

If so, and spammers are directly (presumably intentionally) hitting
wp-cron.php, you could restrict access to the file in your web server
config pretty simply.


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Barack Obama <
administrator at bypass-censorship.org> wrote:

> My website, Bypass-Censorship.org, is getting LOTS of spam traffic from
> Tor (specifically in the wp-cron.php script).
>
> I obviously don't want to block Tor as it's extremely beneficial for
> privacy geeks and people from Iran, China, etc, to access my site; however,
> I do have an alternative solution that I may need help with.
>
> Basically what I want to do is add some PHP code in the beginning of
> index.php (I use WordPress as my CMS). What the code should do is detect if
> the client is using Tor, and if the client is, the script redirects to the
> mobile version of my site (mobile.dudamobile.com/site/bypass-censorship -
> it is hosted for free on DudaMobile).
>
> I believe this would be beneficial for two reasons:
>
>
>    1. Spam attacks and hack attacks are useless since it is not on my
>    primary host (meaning there is no wp-cron.php).
>    2. And it will take a huge load off my server (I am well-ranked for
>    the term "hidden wiki" in Google and Ixquick).
>
>
> Please tell me what you think of this idea, and how I can implement it.
>
> Thanks,
> -BC
>
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