1. add nginx 404 block for spammers and bots based on their user agent. 2. add HTTP basic auth (NGINX and Apache) to protect your site or selfhosted apps from those same spammers, bots and freeloaders (build)

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 <div class="post-content"><p>My server has been getting bussyblasted by spam requests from bots and other subhumans and I figured out a way to block them with NGINX.</p>
 <p>Adapt the following for your use case and simply place it in every nginx.conf that is <code>ln -s</code> linked to your <code>/etc/nginx/sites-enabled</code> (<em>it should be under the <code>listen 443</code> server block if you use certbot. Don&rsquo;t add it under <code>location</code> it should be on the same level as <code>listen [::]:443 ssl;</code></em>)</p>
 

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