Disabling comments/trackbacks?

[Octane]

Is there a way to disable comments and/or trackbacks on my serendipity blog?

Thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Please read the FAQ: http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A30

Regards,
Garvin

[Harald Weingaertner]

Garvin, if i follow the FAQ, it would still be possible to receive trackbacks from Spammers, right?

How do i deny trackbacks from external pages instead of just not displaying them? Or did i misunderstood the FAQ?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I just appended the FAQ with this:

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You can turn off to receive trackbacks/comments in the configuration of your spamblock plugin. To totally ban trackbacks from your site, you can edit the serendipity file *comment.php* After the first <?php add this:

if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'trackback') die('Disabled');

The other way you have is to edit your .htaccess file and add a mod_rewrite (if your server supports that, of course) rule to block calls to your comment.php:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*type=trackback.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*comment.php.*$ - [F]

HTH,
Garvin