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Help with new proxy

got a small php problem I need help

         

Miguelmateos

7:20 pm on May 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Ok here is the deal I just bought a proxy website from sitepoint in an auction and there are really 2 problems

First
the script runing the site is phproxy and for some reason it is not working what I mean is when you try to visit a site through my site instead of taking you to a proxified page it sends you back to the index page can anyone help me with the the guy who sold me the sites it was 2 is not any help and isn't refunding me for selling me a site that doesn't work it worked for him on his server I tried it before buying it but for some reason on mine it is not working I doubt it has to do with my server but probably something to do with him installing it wrong here are my server specs

Processor Name Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 2795.793
Processor Name Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 2795.793
Processor Name Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 2795.793
Processor Name Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 2795.793
Total Memory 4154524 kB
Free Memory 3355772 kB
Total Swap Memory 4192956 kB
Free Swap Memory 4192956 kB
Apache 2.2.8 Running
DirectAdmin 1.31.5 Running
Exim 4.67 Running
MySQL 5.0.51a Running
Named 9.2.4 Running
ProFTPd 1.3.1 Running
sshd Running
dovecot 1.0.13 Running

and the latest php is installed as you can see the server is more then enough to handle the script

2nd Problem I notice that 1 of the sites is for some reason recieving some very fishy traffic let me explain why

in my awstats here is what it shows
day month year visitors pages hits bandwidth
06 May 2008 30937 223563 234595 50.54 GB
07 May 2008 31622 486139 496490 50.29 GB
08 May 2008 22388 275142 282056 33.94 GB so far today

ok so those stats look awesome right I should be making a killing only its not so for example I have adsense on the main page the index page which gets 99% of the traffic and yet adsense is showing only about 1,500-2k impressions per day now I know this can be for 100's of reasons but I think there is something wrong with the traffic maybe it is fake most of it is definitly useless alot comes from asia so I was wondering if there is a way I can put a peace of code on the index page that will require visitor's to be authenticated maybe ask if they are at least 13 years old they would have to click that they are 13 or older then it would show them the index page I don't want them to need to register or put in a password just need a way to know they are real people especially english speaking

but I want bots like google bot and yahoo msn ect.. to still see the index page as it is now and not the authentication page

is this possible is there a script that does this

I appreciate all replys and help

[edited by: eelixduppy at 8:19 pm (utc) on May 8, 2008]

incrediBILL

3:02 am on May 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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ok so those stats look awesome right I should be making a killing only its not so for example

That traffic isn't human.

It's either search engines trying to crawl through your site or someone else is using your proxy to scrape sites or harvest email addresses.

Welcome to the horror that is running a proxy site.

lazyhat

6:47 pm on May 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Just so you know Awstats, is horrible inaccurate for examine traffic from a Browser Proxy.

Miguelmateos

9:09 pm on May 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Well if anyone has some advice on what I can do here to get the bandwidth down I would appreciate it and maybe get rid of leachers and bots that aren't coming from the search engines by the way in the last couple days I have moved up even higher in the search engines for some very competitive keywords and traffic is still rising I would love to monitize this traffic and make a profit but it is impossible with the amounts of bandwidth that this site is using