Question How to add Block Bots addon to PLESK

[tkalfaoglu]

Server operating system version

Rocky

Plesk version and microupdate number

Obsidian

Hi there.. Is there a way to enable this tool globally :

GitHub - mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker: Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jai

Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail f...

github.com

It seems wonderful and we are wasting a lot of CPU/IO on bots..
Many thanks, -t

 

[Maarten]

It looks like a great script, but the creator himself said that in its current state, it will never work in a Plesk environment:

[INSTALLATION] (Installing NUBBB within a Plesk Hosting Control Programme - Obsidian ) · Issue #463 · mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

Did you look through existing ISSUES ? Yes Describe the problem you are experiencing When using Plesk as a Hosting Control Programme on a server, one part of the supplied default script(s) will err...

github.com

In that same response, he gives a few hints on how to make it work in Plesk.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Thanks Maarten, I saw that blurb too.. But I was not sure how to proceed..