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#24216 Block IP's trying to access wp-admin or similar

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Latest post by Sigitas on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 05:36 CST

Monday, 18 January 2016 02:06 CST

Sigitas

Hi,
is it possible to automatically blacklist IP who's trying to access specific file or directory? In logs I see a lot requests from bots on /wp-admin, wp-login.php and sometimes /user (Drupal I guess). I've tried to achieve this using WAF Blacklist tool, but not sure how to use it for specific url or directory.

Monday, 18 January 2016 05:30 CST

tampe125

Hello,

that's not possible, since such kind of "attack" are outside Joomla.
Moreover that's not performance wise, since we should have to boot the whole Joomla environment (database connection, loading the whole configuration + all plugins etc etc).
The best way is to raise a simple 404 error, which your server is already doing.

Davide Tampellini

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Wednesday, 20 January 2016 05:36 CST

Sigitas

Ok, got it. Thank you.

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