I advice you to submit a ticket or just live chat with them

1.How can I clean up my error log and stop spammers coming again? I seem to have a huge list of them.
Use Akismet. If it is not sufficent ban the IP of spammers themselves
go to your .htaccess and type: deny from xxx.xxx.xxx

2.What kind of plugin should I use? Is the Ask Apache plugin easy to use, or worthwhile?
Use Akismet plugin

3.Should I ask my webhost (Bluehost) to do something about this, or am I on my own?
yes, write to them right away

4.I have incoming links flow to my dashboard, but they’re always gone after only a few minute. This makes me sad and I’m going crazy trying to fix things.
Ban them right away!

As a general rule update your wordpress to the latest version.
Place a php.ini file in every folder located inside your public_html. If you dont have it ask the support to place a copy of that file in your folders

I have strange error logs in my server like this:

[Wed Nov 12 01:13:00 2008] [error] [client 222.127.251.167] Usage: file [-bcikLnNsvz] [-f namefile] [-F separator] [-m magicfiles] file…, referer: http://

[Wed Nov 12 01:13:02 2008] [error] [client 213.163.41.42] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo.so’ – /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo.so: undefined symbol: compiler_globals in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://

Wed Nov 12 01:13:06 2008] [error] [client 57.67.17.100] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_sqlite.so’ – /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_sqlite.so: undefined symbol: core_globals in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://

That’s just a sample…there are many entries like that, with different url and ips referer. From what I’ve read, those things are spam or hacking? I don’t really understand the difference. I don’t often play around with my server because I’m afraid of making some fatal mistake.

In my blog, I use “Easy Ban” plugin to try and stop them. I just type in the names, not the IPs. It seems too hard to ban all the IPs, in case I make mistakes, especially with many similar-looking IPs from users in Indonesia. But the error log’s still there.

I’m not too worried about my bandwith, as such, since I believe I have quite a lot. But these things are very annoying. I’ve read also that we can stop them with .htaccess. I’m very careful with that file, again, in case I get something wrong. I don’t know enough about it.

When my blog got hit by canonical duplicate content, I just copy and paste from other people’s blogs..

This is my current .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.balisugar.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.balisugar.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ – [F,NC]

order allow,deny
allow from all

My questions are:

1.How can I clean up my error log and stop spammers coming again? I seem to have a huge list of them.
2.What kind of plugin should I use? Is the Ask Apache plugin easy to use, or worthwhile?
3.Should I ask my webhost (Bluehost) to do something about this, or am I on my own?
4.I have incoming links flow to my dashboard, but they’re always gone after only a few minute. This makes me sad and I’m going crazy trying to fix things.

I’m sorry, Webtalk, to bother you again. I feel comfortable asking you my questions. I hope you don’t mind.

the purpose of doing so because I want to link it back to my website..
or any idea with a link when user click on it by using a gif file type..

many thanks for your fast respone!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(swf)$ hotlink.swf [NC,L]

Apart from this I dont know how to help you as far as swf files are concerned. But why do you want to put a swf file? The whole point of this article is to diminish bandwidth theft. Swf files are heavy and they can increse the amount of bandwidth thieves use (at least at the beginning). The main idea is to substitute the pic or everything else with a light image…

May I know how do I change the “hhttp://www.webtlk.com/wp-pictures/uploads/pics/dontstealfrome.jpe” to a swf instead of jpg?

Thanks, and your blog is helpful to me =)