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Django Brokenlinks

log brokenlinks to logfile and config fail2ban to ban crawlers hitting many 404 pages.

Requirements

django-appconf

Installation

$ pip install django-brokenlinks

Setup

  1. Add 'brokenlinks' to INSTALLED_APPS
  2. Add 'brokenlinks.middleware.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware' to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
  3. Set the BROKENLINKS_LOG_PATH
  4. After change in brokenlinks configs run manage.py createbrokenlinksconfs once and use the result conf-files with fail2ban

your settings.py will look like below:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
# ... 'brokenlinks', # ...

)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES= (
'brokenlinks.middleware.BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware', # ...

)

BROKENLINKS_LOG_PATH = '/path/to/brokenlinks.log'

then config fail2ban to use it

Author

  • w.Tayyeb