This is a simple Apache setup to fight excessive bot traffic. The idea is simple: if a request is made without a proper cookie, present a simple page with a button. When the button is clicked, the cookie is set and future requests are allowed through. Legitimate users will click the button, while most bots will not.
Unlike other, similar solutions this one is designed to be easy to deploy and setup with an existing Apache server without the need of a reverse proxy or complex dependencies. Also unlike many other solutions it also optionally works with JavaScript disabled.
The handling is mostly done by mod_rewrite and a small Go helper program that performs fast lookups against multiple allow lists.
So taking a page out of Anubis' book, I went and implemented my own little bot blocker. The idea is pretty simple. Each request gets checked for the presence of a cookie. If the cookie is set, the request is served as usual. If the cookie is missing, a simple HTML page with a button is shown. Real users are asked to click the button, get a cookie valid for 30 days and the page reloads, this time serving the original request. From then on they can browse the site as usual. But since bots don't click buttons (yet), they are stuck at the button page forever.
I was able to implement this whole mechanism with Apache's mod_rewrite module, which means no additional service (like Anubis) is needed. Each request is checked by Apache and since the bot check page is static, nearly no resources are needed.
It works really well. Can you spot when the system went online in the graph below?
After my last post about fighting bots, I received several questions asking whether my solution would also work for simple web hosting setups. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Even though most hosters use Apache and allow the use of mod_rewrite, they typically only permit configuration through .htaccess files. The problem is that the RewriteMap configuration my solution relies on cannot be defined there.
So I started thinking: what if we use PHP instead?
Ideally, we wouldn’t want bots to reach the PHP interpreter at all. But if we have no other choice, we can still make this fairly efficient by blocking bots very early—before the DokuWiki core is even initialized.
This is where the new Bot Check plugin comes in.
The idea is simple: the plugin generates a small, dependency-free PHP script that implements the bot checks. This script is then loaded via DokuWiki’s inc/preload.php mechanism, ensuring it runs as early as possible in the request lifecycle.
For end users, the experience is the same as for my previous solution. A quick button click sets a cookie and let's them access your wiki for 30 days.
his is a somewhat recycled version of a forum post that I have to lookup again and again, because the same similar questions keep popping up:
How can I install DokuWiki on a shared drive?
How to run DokuWiki out of Dropbox and share it with multiple users?
How to sync DokuWiki between different computers?
These questions mostly come from users who made their first steps in DokuWiki using the "DokuWiki on a Stick" version. To novice users, the stick version feels like a traditional desktop application: you double click the run.cmd and DokuWiki starts.
But what is really starting is a local web server and a browser pointing to said web server.
Default export formats
The following export options are available by default:
export_raw
Returns the page's source as text/plain
Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_rawexport_xhtml
Returns the rendered page as simple XHTML without any navigational elements
Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_xhtmlexport_xhtmlbody
Returns the rendered XHTML of the page only.
No head or body tags are added. No contenttype headers are sent.
Useful to include the rendered output into some other website
Example: https://www.dokuwiki.org/export?do=export_xhtmlbody
fortunately, i made a discovery: the “detail” page is called “detail.php”, while the normal “get me the whole image” link is “fetch.php”. so i simply deleted detail.php and symlinked the name to fetch.php; this fixed it, and i didn't even have to edit any code, because doku is built the way it should be: a loose collection of files that anyone can understand.
this is, again, why i went with dokuwiki - because it's one of the last vestiges of classic nerd software on the internet. it's like linux in 2003, before it started trying to Help you, before it started trying to be a mishmash of half-baked, half-remembered ideas from Windows and MacOS that don't make end users all that much more comfortable, while getting in the way of the people who the OS was meant to be for in the first place. just let me ifconfig an IP onto eth0 you jackoffs, stop Managing my Network.
i hate modern linux. it has been going in the wrong direction for over 20 years, trying desperately to suck up to consumers who will never care about it, like the democrats “reaching across the aisle” to people who simply bite their fingers off for their trouble, while doing immense harm to their own constituents in the process. and that's really a microcosm of all free software, it's why every other open source CMS package reeks of business-brain.
enterprise brainworms have taken over so fully that you just can't find something at the triple point of “good idea”, “well maintained” and “actually useful for normal human beings,” which is, again, how i wound up using a piece of software from 2004, before the collapse began in earnest. it's like finding steel that isn't radioactive due to fallout from nuclear tests: you simply have to go dig up the old stuff, even if that means melting down old car chassis.
i want that registered user can see DIFF button and everything, and non-registered can show only 'recent changes', so my wish is to have a DISABLEACTION function managed by a sort of ACL.
A simple way to solve this problew is it that follow.
in /incl/template.php, change:
case 'diff':
html_diff();
break;with:
case 'diff':
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])
{
$first = is_numeric($_REQUEST['first']) ? intval($_REQUEST['first']) : 0;
html_diff($first);
}
else
html_login();
break;in this way, if you are a logged-in user, you can display the DIFFERENCE section, with code confront.
if you are not logged, it displays a form for login.
This document describes the steps needed to integrate DokuWiki with Mantis. The method described here was originally tested with mantis version 1.1.0rc2 and dokuwiki rc2009-12-02, and should work with subsequent versions (modulo bugs). It may work with older versions of mantis provided you make the File Changes described below.
template Simple and lightweight, but modernized version of the default template
Dokuwiki white template installation
all the tags from https://b.plas.ml
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