Hi all.

I want to differentiate the nginx awesome rate limiting for requests, in order to enforce bots to respect my directives (but not to block them):

so i created these limit_req_zone:

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=antiddosspider:1m rate=1r/m;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=antiddosphp:1m rate=1r/s;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=antiddosstatic:1m rate=10r/s;

Now, i ask, is it possible to configure something like this?

if ( $http_user_agent ~* (?:bot|spider) ) {
limit_req zone=antiddosspider burst=1;
}

location / {
limit_req zone=antiddosphp burst=100;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8181;
include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
}

I don't know many spider that are crawling my site, but i don't wanna lose the possibility to be indexed if they are not malware! ...But 1 page for minute please ;)

Best regards,
Stefano