Blocking IPs with htaccess and log bloat

I set a 'deny from' in my htaccess to block certain spam bots from parsing my site. While using the code below, I noticed in my log file that I'm getting a lot of 'client denied by server configuration' and it's cluttering up the log files when the bot starts its scan. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Steve

<Files *>
order al开发者_运维百科low,deny
allow from all
deny from 123.45.67.8
</Files>

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I ended up going with the following:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 123.4.3.4.5
RewriteRule (.*) - [F,L]

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Take a look at the conditional logging here - I think that will provide everything you need:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html

Also - if you can identify that the various bots are always coming from a specific IP address, you can block them in your hosts.allow/deny files VIA IP address or automatically using something like blockhosts or possibly mod_evasive, that way apache will never see the requests to log them.

-sean

UPDATE: Are you identifying the ip addresses manually then adding them to your htaccess? that sounds painful. If you really want to do it that way I would suggest you block the ip addresses at the firewall with a drop rule OR as above in hosts allow/deny.

SPURIOUS BROKEN RECORD UPDATE: Take a look at blockhosts, it can block ip addresses based on their 'behavior' & will eliminate the need for you to manually prune them out every day.

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You can get the log file to be sent to a program (aka a script).

Perhaps implement a script than just gives a periodic summary?). The rest to log file?