<![CDATA[How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron?]]>I'm getting loads of spam sign-ups to my Ghost sites, but according to this post:

Self-hosters can apply the same blocklist to their Ghost sites, by adding a list of blocked email domains to their config, under spam.blocked_email_domains. For example:

"spam": {
"blocked_email_domains": ["tmomail.net", "txt.bell.ca"]
}

https://forum.ghost.org/t/an-uptick-of-bots-signing-up/54589/4

I tried add that to my env file via the File Manager, with and without export in front of it, but then the app wouldn't start

e.g.

/app/data/env: line 6: export: spam:': not a valid identifier`

How do we add this config on Cloudron please? Thanks!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13199/how-to-add-this-new-anti-bot-sign-up-configuration-on-cloudronRSS for NodeWed, 22 Jul 2026 05:24:06 GMTTue, 28 Jan 2025 16:53:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:18:21 GMT]]>@rosano said in How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron?:

Ghost recently made a UI for this https://ghost.org/changelog/signup-spam-protection/

Thanks for the headsup!

Odd that it isn't pre-poluated with the links I've already added using the previous config method!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101576https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101576Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:18:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:21:33 GMT]]>Ghost recently made a UI for this https://ghost.org/changelog/signup-spam-protection/

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101553https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101553Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:21:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:45:56 GMT]]>Hmm. Found another domain email.uscc.net

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100880https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100880Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:45:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:44:18 GMT]]>Thanks! yeah, that's JSON validation. Applied, appreciate the feedback.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100879https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100879Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:44:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:57:14 GMT]]>Just to add, this is how I've now got it seemingly working at the end of my /app/data/config.production.json:

  },
  "privacy": {
    "useUpdateCheck": false,
    "useGravatar": false,
    "useRpcPing": false,
    "useStructuredData": true
  },
  "spam": {
    "blocked_email_domains": [
      "tmomail.net",
      "txt.bell.ca"
    ]
  }
}

i.e. you can't just copy/ paste the code in, you also need to add that preceeding comma , or it errors out.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100860https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100860Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:03:52 GMT]]>Yes, that is the config file where the section should be added.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100832https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100832Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:03:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:41:55 GMT]]>@nebulon is that /app/data/config.production.json or somewhere else?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100830https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100830Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:41:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to add this new anti bot sign-up configuration on Cloudron? on Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:34:08 GMT]]>You have to set this in the .json config file of your Ghost instance. This is a toplevel property: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/blob/main/ghost/core/core/shared/config/defaults.json#L64

Our blog also seems to be hit by those domains, I have also put them in the blocklist, so lets see.

After changing, make sure to restart the app!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100821https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100821Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:34:08 GMT