Blocking Baidu

[movierchives]

I've tried blocking Baidu but its but its being the bot from hell.  I need it blocking because its constantly got between 11 and 20 bots on my site at once, they never leave.

I've tried blocking its IP range

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Deny from 188.143.128.0-188.143.255.255

I've added the robot text

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#Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /


Hell I've got China blocked on Cloudflare but does that stop these ruddy bots, hell no 

[MrPhil]

I don't think this is the right syntax:

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Deny from 188.143.128.0-188.143.255.255

Try

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Deny from 188.143.
if you don't mind blocking 1-127 in the third octet. There might be a way to block a range of octets (perhaps

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Deny from 188.143.128-255.
) might work. I'm sure you can google some resources on how to use .htaccess to deny IP ranges.

[movierchives]

Thanks, the varous websites I've seen say that's the way to block a range

I have tried  blocking ranges by doing 37.*.*.* but this hasn't worked either, Russian spammers

[busterone]

in .htaccess try - 
Deny from 188.143
Deny from 37


no dot at the end of the ip range

[movierchives]

I've just done it directly in the cpanel ip blocker and their still there 

[Storman™]

Lets get tough.......  try:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Baiduspider [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

Add that to the END of your .htaccess file.

Note: If you get 500 Server error then remove the first line (Options +FollowSymlinks)

[movierchives]

That keeps 403ing whether Options +FollowSymlink is added or not

[busterone]

Do you have any mods such as pretty urls or any other SEO type mod installed?

[kat]

If you search through the support boards, this has been covered a number of times.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=baidu

Not really much point in going over them all, again, eh?