{"id":269,"date":"2011-09-21T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:59:07","slug":"csf-installation-problem-solve-blocking-google-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/csf-installation-problem-solve-blocking-google-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"CSF Installation Problem: Solve Blocking Google Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCSF\u201d and \u201cMod security\u201d both are very important for your server. If any user wants to install them then they might see it blocking Google bot for some specific rules.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you should be doing to make Google Bots crawl through your sites again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You have to restart Apache after running the below rules to mod_security configuration file :<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p># GoogleBot by user-agent\u2026<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGoogle\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGooglebot\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGoogleBot\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cgooglebot\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGooglebot-Image\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\n##<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cAdsBot-Google\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGooglebot-Image\/1.0\u2033 nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGooglebot\/2.1\u2033 nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cGooglebot\/Test\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cMediapartners-Google\/2.1\u2033 nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cMediapartners-Google*\u201d nolog,allow<br \/>\nSecRule HTTP_USER_AGENT \u201cmsnbot\u201d nolog,allow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCSF\u201d and \u201cMod security\u201d both are very important for your server. If any user wants to install them then they might see it blocking Google bot for some specific rules. Here is what you should be doing to make Google Bots crawl through your sites again. You have to restart Apache after running the below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting","tag-google-bot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}