Question block spiders globally in httpd.conf

[gijsbert]

On one of my servers I like to block a lot of spiders. So in my default /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I added some rules (see attached file). However after restarting apache [OK] I still see these spiders appear in my log file.

Maybe I should put this global block in some other file/configuration? I am clueless

Any help will be appreciated.

Gijsbert

 

[Brujo]

You can take into consider to enable in plesk panel > Tools & settings> IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban). Fail2ban can handle "Bad Bots" when you use the plesk-apache-badbot jail.
See: Fail2Ban Jails Management or if you have nginx in place take a look at Instruction - Blocking extra bots using nginx