I dont believe you can use limi_req within an if statement. You might have
to rewire the if to a different location and then apply the rule:

Example:

if ( $http_user_agent ~* (?:bot|spider) ) {
error_page 403 = @bots;
return 403;
}

location @bots {
limit_req zone=antiddosspider burst=1;
}


GL.

Rami

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM, rastrano <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> with this conf i get:
> Testing nginx configuration: [emerg]: "limit_req" directive is not
> allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
>
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Rami
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