Cloudflare Developers•5mo ago

how to set rule not block googlebot ?

hi everyone, now i have a problem 😦 i have a one custom rules to block all country with response type "403 Default Cloudflare WAF block page" but not block Taiwan and Singapore"(not ip.geoip.country in {"TW" "SG"}) " so i have a problem because google bot also got blocked so what should i do?

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Hard@Work•5mo ago

Do you only want to allow Googlebot, or also other verified bots?

iamtheflashOP•5mo ago

just googlebot

Hard@Work•5mo ago

This should™️ work?

(not ip.geoip.country in {"TW" "SG"}) or (not cf.bot_management.verified_bot) or (not http.user_agent contains "GoogleBot")

(not ip.geoip.country in {"TW" "SG"}) or (not cf.bot_management.verified_bot) or (not http.user_agent contains "GoogleBot")

Ok, let me see if I can get it right this time... Keep the original rule, then create a new Allow rule with the following content:

(cf.bot_management.verified_bot and http.user_agent contains "GoogleBot")

(cf.bot_management.verified_bot and http.user_agent contains "GoogleBot")

And I apologize for the original mixup Wouldn't the above block Verified Bots that don't have GoogleBot in their UA? Oh... Yeah, not sure if that is something you want Yeah, I read it as they only wanted GoogleBot to bypass the country-level block, but I can see how that question was ambiguous, mb

iamtheflashOP•5mo ago

i just want to block requests that don't come from singapore and taiwan. and i want to allow only google bot because i want to use robot.txt but when blocking the country it also block google bot. thank you very much to everyone for discussing and helping 🙂 :MeowHeartCloudflare:

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