nginx-referrer-spam-block

Easy way to block Crawler Referrer Spam on NGINX web server

• create file /etc/nginx/blacklist.conf with content from this repo
• include the file the the http block of your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf like this:

  http {
  # ...

    include blacklist.conf;

  # ...

  }

• add conditions to the sites, for which, you want to block referer spam bots for example /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

  server {
    # ...

    if ($bad_referer) {
      return 444;
    }

    # ...
  }

• restart you NGINX server