Re: www/anubis trip report: blocking AI bots, basically works, hints

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:

> My todo list for the package, which I'll fold in if nobody tells me I'm
> confused:
>
>   - there's no rc.d script
>   - there's no mechanism to run as non-root
>   - upstream recommands /var/run/nginx/foo sockets instead of IP for
>     communication from nginx to anubis and anubis to nginx.  We don't
>     have a subdir and anubis should run as anubis so this is not
>     trivial.

As if by magic, improvements that addressed these three appeared 11
minutes after my post!

I wonder though how the contents of default.env, or equivalenet config,
is supposed to be configured.

>   - the env file should be used, or not be in etc
>   - config should be handled somehow
>   - defaults include listening on * instead of 127.0.0.1 and ::1 only
>     and that should probably be fixed
>   - there is some concept of alternative sidecar config and maybe we
>     should accomodate it