How to remove the Contact page safely

[eagleman]

Recently I noticed a significant increase of spam messages through the Contact page. I'll try to change the antispam filter, but Just in case is it possible to remove the Contact page without messing up the whole blog?

[laborix]

... is it possible to remove the Contact page without messing up the whole blog?

Rename in the Flatpress root dir the contact.php like contact.bak or use any other name, then Log in in your Blog and go to the static pages, there you will find a menu.txt Page, Edit this page and remove the contact link.

[Arvid]

Thanks laborix

@eagleman, did that work for you?

[eagleman]

Absolutely yes, and if you look on the Wiki, I have added this little trick on the Contact page section (obviously in both languages, english and italian)

[Arvid]

Totally missed that one, sorry - thank you very much for contributing to the wiki!
I felt free to add a little text formatting - hope the added headline is correct Italian?

All the best,
Arvid

[eagleman]

Don't worry. It's a very good correction.
I have nothing to complain about it

[Arvid]

Thanks for checking!

[bttr]

Hi!
If you are running Apache, another solution is to block access to contact.php by adding this to your .htaccess file.

Code: Select all

<Files ~ "^([\._]ht|contact.php$)">
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all denied
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        Order allow,deny
        Deny from all
    </IfModule>
</Files>

This is how DokuWiki protects some of its files.

[WineMan]

I know I shouldn't hijack a page, but I am having the same problems with a significant increase in spam comments. Can the comment module be deleted and if so, how? I've looked at the possibility of not allowing url's in the comments but can't figure out how to do that. Thanks.

[eagleman]

I know I shouldn't hijack a page, but I am having the same problems with a significant increase in spam comments. Can the comment module be deleted and if so, how? I've looked at the possibility of not allowing url's in the comments but can't figure out how to do that. Thanks.

Go to Comment center, click on Add a new policy,
Apply to all entries, and select Block all comments from Behavoir section.
In this way you'll delete the comment section for all the entries on your blog