can’t block an IP….please help!!!

yes…

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ".*guestbook$"
RewriteRule .* - [F]

demo

LMFAO!!!

by doing that is that what it will say? or is that just a custom thing you made for it? also, will that make it so that any URI combination that they use that has “guestbook” in it, it will do that?

Thank you,
Kahil

I just tried to add that to my htaccess and I don’t think it worked… i uploaded it, made sure that it didn’t cause any problems with accessing my site, and then when I tried to go to /guestbook/, it just took me to my 404 page…

I dunno then. That rule should work.

https://www.mykahil.com/guestbook/ gives me the wp 404.

https://www.mykahil.com/guestbook gives me godaddy’s 404 (no trailing slash)

put the rule above all of the wp stuff in your .htaccess, see if that makes a difference

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ".*guestbook*"
RewriteRule .* - [F]

that blocks subdirectories for me, as well.

https://www.village-idiot.org/guestbook/blah/blah

Under “normal” circumstances that should do the trick. If not, it’s due to either wp or how godaddy is handling 404s, or both, not the rule itself.

My dog, Coco, has a slipped disk so I will be in and out for the rest of the day, but ill check back later to see if youve resolved this.

yay!!! that second one with the * after the word guestbook instead of the $ did the trick!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

cool, glad to hear that worked. Now if I could only keep my beloved puppy from being paralyzed, the world would be perfect ??

whooami,

Please help!!!

I don’t know what they hell happened but all of a sudden it is happening again. I still have the above expression in my htaccess file and have made no changes. It was working perfectly before, but not anymore for some reason.

What can I do?

Thank you

OK, thats wierd… now its working again…

i’m confused…

but i am having a problem with this URI…

/2005-11-09/59

I tried to do the same as with the whole guestbook thing, but it isn’t working…

hmmm… it seems as though it works for a while, but then it stops… as soon as I re-upload the htaccess file I saved, it works….but after a while it starts back up by loading my 404 page rather than the server error page thereby using my bandwidth to load a whole page. At this point its randome and few and far between, but I don’t want it to get to the level it was before where I was getting 400+ hits in a day with some robot trying to go to a page that doesn’t exist.

Does anyone know what is happening?

Thank you,
Kahil

yeah… i just tried it again and it still won’t work for those other URIs…

whooami can you help? or anyone else?

I just had to re-upload my htaccess file again to make it work right again… I don’t understand what is going on.

OK… I have figured this out…

here is the beginning of my htaccess file when it works…

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

somehow it is getting changed to….

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I hae not done this myself and it all started once I upgraded to this supposedly better version 2.03…

is there a way to keep wordpress from changing this like that?

Thank you

I am still having this problem… despite using those htaccess entries, its not working. I don’t know why. It was working before for a while…then somehow I guess a hacker figured out a way to change my htaccess to add that [L] in it, so I had to go in and delete that from time to time, which was OK with me. But not nothing is working and I can’t get these people to stop. Blocking their IP in htaccess isn’t work nor is blocking the URI that they try to enter, that doesn’t exist, like /guestbook/.

please help