flancer32/mage2_ext_bot_sess 0.1.3

Magento2: prevent session creation for bots & crawlers.

Type

magento2-module

License

GPL-3.0-only

Requires

None

Requires (dev)

None

Suggests

None

Provides

None

Conflicts

None

Replaces

None

Magento2: prevent session creation for search engines bots and crawlers

There is a problem with search engines bots and crawlers in Magento - new session is created for each request from the bots. So, there are a lot of "dead" sessions in DB/filesystem when any bot scans Magento pages - each page request creates new session. This module prevents session creation for search engines bots and crawlers.

DB

Console command to clean up existing bots sessions from DB:

$ ./bin/magento fl32:botsess:clean

Files

If Magento saves own sessions in filesystem (./app/etc/env.php):

  'session' => 
  array (
    'save' => 'files',
  )

sessions are cleaned up using PHP garbage collector (see session.gc_maxlifetime). Magento in this mode cannot control sessions lifetime. Use this route to cleanup files sessions for inactive users: http://your.shop.com/fl32botsess/clean/files and this template to create shell-script for cron.

This is bad solution for bad practice. Don't use files for Magento sessions at all.

Install

$ cd ${DIR_MAGE_ROOT}
$ composer require flancer32/mage2_ext_bot_sess
$ bin/magento module:enable Flancer32_BotSess
$ bin/magento setup:upgrade
$ bin/magento setup:di:compile
$ bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
$ bin/magento cache:clean
$ # set filesystem permissions to your files

Uninstall

You need an authentication keys for https://repo.magento.com/ to uninstall any Magento 2 module. Go to your Magento account, section (My Profile / Marketplace / Access Keys) and generate pair of keys to connect to Magento 2 repository. Then place composer authentication file auth.json besides your composer.json as described here and put your authentication keys for https://repo.magento.com/ into the authentication file:

{
  "http-basic": {
    "repo.magento.com": {
      "username": "...",
      "password": "..."
    }
  }
}

Then run these commands to completely uninstall Flancer32_BotSess module:

$ cd ${DIR_MAGE_ROOT}   
$ bin/magento module:uninstall Flancer32_BotSess
$ composer remove flancer32/mage2_ext_bot_sess
$ bin/magento setup:upgrade
$ bin/magento setup:di:compile
$ bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
$ bin/magento cache:clean
$ # set filesystem permissions to your files

Be patient, uninstall process (bin/magento module:uninstall ...) takes about 2-4 minutes. Remove auth.json file at the end:

bash $ rm ./auth.json