phpMyFAQ

Things seem okay now.

I have now blocked these IPs

Deny from 57.141.7.
Deny from 173.252.
Deny from 66.220.149
Deny from 69.171.
Deny from 173.252.

And changed my robots.txt to

User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher ...

Hi,

wow, this is bad. Did you add something like this in your robots.txt?

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent ...

Hi Thorsten

Found these is server logs, does this help?


facebookexternalhit/1.1
meta-externalagent/1.1

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sh ... rs/crawler
http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php

Well that didn't work for long - the FAQ is being bombarded today again with "unable log on" search queries every few seconds but I have been unable to identify which IP it is this time.

I have had to take the FAQ offline until this can be resolved.

Hi

Just to say this is still a problem - I had exactly the same issue as Brückentroll and it was also Meta spider constantly searching every 4 seconds for "unable log on" - there have been 1125876 searches on my site for this - every 4 seconds.

It got so bad that my webhost took my site offline ...

Hi

I just tried the password reset option and the emailed password worked this time - I am logged in now :o)

Thanks.

Alistair

V3
Yes I have myphp access
Still cannot login

My site is reporting a 404 error for file /faqs/assets/js/libs/highlight.pack.js being called from https://www.ghostrecon.net/faqs/?action ... artlang=en

I've checked the myphpfaq files and there is no highlight.pack.js included...?

I understand, stay safe.

Hi

I appreciate when you have the time to try and help me resolve this admin log in issue.

Thanks.

Hi

Thanks - I have sent an email (11 Jan 2021)

Hi

Please see the image attached to my previous post - there is no security.salt in my faqconfig table.

This could be because this installation was from a very old version of the FAQ?

Hi

Where do I find My phpMyFAQ Salt, I cannot see it in table faqconfig

https://imgur.com/LPSRjGs

Hi

It shows 7 attempts, and it goes up by one after every attempt.

After a password recovery is used, it tells me "Wrong login name or password."

Thanks.