[BioRuby] Wiki problems

Toshiaki Katayama ktym at hgc.jp
Fri Oct 15 12:44:24 EDT 2004


Good news:

I have just remembered that the wiki pages is controlled under CVS. :)
So, I'll revert all pages during this weekend and then will apply
some restriction for the spam.

-k


On 2004/10/16, at 1:37, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:

> Dear Pjotr,
>
> I'm sorry that I couldn't work on this problem soon and
> thank you for maintaining the site.
> I'll take the suggested restriction.
> Let me know from what address you want to access.
> Another possibility is to freeze wiki pages using password.
> If you can recover some pages, could you freeze them for the moment?
>
> Regards,
> Toshiaki Katayama
>
>
> On 2004/10/15, at 23:17, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>
>> Dear K.,
>>
>> Who is in charge of the Wiki? - there is some real issue with a
>> spammer (see English section).
>>
>> I suggest you restrict access to fixed IP adresses to whoever requests
>> them. In Apache you can say:
>>
>>   <Location /pjwiki>
>>     <Limit POST PUT>
>>       Order Allow,Deny
>>       Allow from 137.224
>>       Allow from wur.nl
>>       Allow from wau.nl
>>       Allow from xs4all.nl
>>     </Limit>
>>     <LimitExcept POST PUT>
>>       Order allow,deny
>>       Allow from all
>>       Deny from 61.149.114
>>       Deny from netvision.net.il
>>       Deny from 210.3.7
>>       Deny from 220.184.113
>>     </LimitExcept>
>>   </Location>
>>
>> which allows viewing for all and editing from some. This goes against
>> the original Wiki spirit, but not much we can do. People can request
>> access this way.
>>
>> Pj.
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