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MihirP1129
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Jun 20, 2019

Stop Bots using iRule?

We have couple of wordpress servers and would like to get away with creating a robot.txt file for every site we have. Is there a way we could stop bots at the f5 using an irule?
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  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
    Jun 20, 2019

    MihirP1129,

     

    An irule can do a lot, but this may be a very administrative piece of work. You could create a Data Group with a list of bots you were interested in blocking and then an iRule can reference this group to allow/block. Something like this Controlling Bots

     

    Hope this helps,

     

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nathe
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Jun 20, 2019

MihirP1129,

 

An irule can do a lot, but this may be a very administrative piece of work. You could create a Data Group with a list of bots you were interested in blocking and then an iRule can reference this group to allow/block. Something like this Controlling Bots

 

Hope this helps,

 

N