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let me just start with this i don’t have a wordpress website myself but am getting huge requests on /wp- routing
how can i stop this?
my logs is completely flooded with 404 from /wp-this and /wp-that
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> i don’t have a wordpress website myself but am getting huge requests on /wp- routing
> my logs is completely flooded with 404 from /wp-this and /wp-that
This is pretty *normal* in a negative way. Bots routinely check sites for security vulnerabilities. One is to check if a site is made in WordPress, and requesting /wp-*** is the most common way.
> how can i stop this?
One way to minimize this (and not completely stop) is to temporarily (not permanently) ban IP addresses that do this (e.g., 15 minutes) so as not to affect legitimate users.
We also get tons of those “hits”, but if you implemented all the necessary security measures, plus great firewall / antivirus tools / CDN (along with quality hosting) – then you did all that is in your power in order to protect websites and that’s all you can do.
Easy solution is to just block /wp-.* using a server rule.
NGINX for example:
“`
location ~ ^/wp-.* {
deny all;
}
“`
Clean logs!