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Well, I am for now.
I noticed Baidu pretty much on a forum of mine 24/7, but I didn’t recall ever seeing them show up in the referrer logs.  Over the past year, across the sites on my server, they’ve made almost 35,000 requests for pages; chewed up 337 megs of bandwidth, admittedly not a big [...]

Looks like Apache2 is installed in Ubuntu with mod_rewrite, but it's disabled by default.  Fortunately a quick drop to the terminal followed by restarting Apache2 and it's fixed.
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sudo a2enmod rewrite