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mitchellkrogza / nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
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[INSTALLATION] Im using the manual approach and i have couple questions #470

Closed initd0 closed 1 year ago

initd0 commented 2 years ago

I just want to confirm that im understanding how this program works exactly.

1. Will it be ok to move the config files in a different dir? eg. Placing the 2 config files in a dir like this instead:

/etc/nginx/botsConf.d/botblocker-nginx-settings.conf
/etc/nginx/botsConf.d/globalblacklist.conf

and including them in nginx.conf like this:

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/botsConf.d/*.conf;

Since i like having my nginx files a little bit more organized and want to be able to just comment out include /etc/nginx/botsConf.d/*.conf; instead of moving out the configs from conf.d/ in-case i need to do debugging or tests by disabling BadBotBlocker easily.

Shouldnt have any negative side effects right?

2. You say that the files from bots.d/ dir dont need to be updated because its our own custom files, but what if there is a future update in your repo of the structure of them, do we have to copy-paste and move the custom edits we've done into the new files?

3. It seems botblocker-nginx-settings.conf is not part of the update script, should we regularly check to see if this script has an updated version?

initd0 commented 2 years ago

@mitchellkrogza some kind of feedback please?

initd0 commented 2 years ago

@mitchellkrogza can you please reply?

mitchellkrogza commented 2 years ago

@mitchellkrogza can you please reply? You can change both folder locations, the setup script caters for this too, you will just need to add your includes into your vhosts pointing to where you have the files.