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| - | ====== How to Block xmlrpc.php Bot Attack ====== | + | ====== How to Block Bot Attack? ====== |
| - | Your server may experience heavy hits from a bot named [[http://law.di.unimi.it/BUbiNG.html#wc|BUbiNG]]. This may have caused a massive load spike in the server. To prevent further problems, we can deny that user agent globally. | + | Your server may experience heavy hits from bots. There are different ways to block bot attack. |
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| + | ===== Example 1: "BUbiNG" bot ===== | ||
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| + | "BUbiNG" bot [[http://law.di.unimi.it/BUbiNG.html#wc|BUbiNG]] may have caused a massive load spike in the server. To prevent further problems, we can deny that user agent globally. | ||
| - | ===== Example 1 ===== | ||
| An easy solution is to use a rewrite rule to detect the user agent, and then set environment with the action ''[E=blockbot]''. This will drop the direct connection from that client IP. | An easy solution is to use a rewrite rule to detect the user agent, and then set environment with the action ''[E=blockbot]''. This will drop the direct connection from that client IP. | ||
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| If your rules need further debugging, you can enable rewrite log to check. | If your rules need further debugging, you can enable rewrite log to check. | ||
| - | ===== Example 2: ===== | + | ===== Example 2: Block xmlrpc.php Bot Attack ===== |
| On a server, after configuring cPanel Piped Logging to push entries to ''/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log'', you can see many ''404 File not found [/var/www/html/xmlrpc.php]'' entries coming through. 404 will not trigger the LSWS WordPress protection feature, because the requests look like they're being processed by the default vhost. | On a server, after configuring cPanel Piped Logging to push entries to ''/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log'', you can see many ''404 File not found [/var/www/html/xmlrpc.php]'' entries coming through. 404 will not trigger the LSWS WordPress protection feature, because the requests look like they're being processed by the default vhost. | ||