Googlebot grabbing files ;)

Hi, you might want to password protect the download files. You could try this step to see if it resolves your issue.

Let me know how you go.

Kind regards

Since the all files provided for free download, not sure that’s the right solution.

and manually setting passwords for more than 1k files is a bit complicated

Do you have any security plugin installed in your site?

wordfence

Does the root folder have an index.php that is ZERO BYTES?

If you can login at the “shell/command” line, try executing this in the root folder where the downloads are positioned:

“touch index.php”

That will create a ZERO bytes file and could convince the bots that there is nothing of value to rampage thru.

yes, there’s a index.php, but it’s not zero bytes

2 more downloads today, site was hidden behind “maintenance page”

So, I’ve tried everything I can, but unfortunately log is still grows because of google/yandex bots. Is there anything else you could suggest to solve this?

I have submitted a message to the plugin developers to see if they can come up with a solution to your problem.

Thank you

great. thank you

I am a little stumped. Not sure what a good solution for this is.

You should maybe enable the following option so you are not getting repeat downloads from that bot and filling up the log:

Log Unique IP

Probably it will help, but it will have a negative impact on the accuracy of statistics. Is there any possibility to exclude/blacklist IP’s from logging?

p.s. – one more bug – Downloads by country doesn’t show any information

Hello.
After last several updates problem is still persist, unfortunately.

@kirillm, is that a unique IP address? If it is you might want to block that IP address from your site. Do you think that would work for you?