{"id":13747,"date":"2021-08-31T07:17:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:33:36","slug":"how-to-block-bots-from-apache-with-whm-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/how-to-block-bots-from-apache-with-whm-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Block Bots from Apache with WHM\/cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bot crawlers are\u00a0essential algorithms that index your website. However, that applies to only a few of them as some bots cause more harm than good, like server load or network instability. You can block these bots using Apache with WHM\/cPanel server.<\/p>\n

To Block Bots from Apache<\/h2>\n

1. Log in to WHM using your root account.<\/p>\n

2. Select the Service Configuration<\/strong> option from the navigation menu.<\/p>\n

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3. Click on Apache Configuration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The list of configuration options for the Apache server will appear.<\/p>\n

4. Click on Include Editor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Here, you can apply configurations to your Apache server on a global scale.<\/p>\n

5. Go to the Pre Main Include<\/strong> section and, under I wish to edit the Pre Main configuration include file for:\u00a0<\/strong>select All Versions\u00a0<\/strong>from the dropdown list.<\/p>\n

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A text box will appear in the Pre Main Include<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n

6. Copy\/enter this code in there and click the Update<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n

<Directory \"\/example\">\r\n   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"MJ12bot\" bad_bots\r\n   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"AhrefsBot\" bad_bots\r\n   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"SemrushBot\" bad_bots\r\n   SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"Baiduspider\" bad_bots\r\n  <RequireAll>\r\n     Require all granted\r\n     Require not env bad_bots\r\n  <\/RequireAll>\r\n<\/Directory><\/pre>\n
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Note<\/strong>: In the first line in the\u00a0Directory<\/strong> section where we set it as \/example<\/em>,\u00a0you have to specify the directory path to the location of your website. For cPanel servers, it is set as \/home<\/em>\u00a0by default. Also, you can block more bad bots by adding them to the code with the same syntax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Here’s a list of commonly termed bad bots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Bad_Bots List<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
MJ12Bot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baiduspider<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AhrefsBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEMrushBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DotBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MauiBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
YandexBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PetalBot or AspiegelBot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bot crawlers are\u00a0essential algorithms that index your website. However, that applies to only a few of them as some bots cause more harm than good, like server load or network instability. You can block these bots using Apache with WHM\/cPanel server. To Block Bots from Apache 1. Log in to WHM using your root account. 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