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How ban some http-query in Apache?

Posted November 21, 2014 2k views

Hello.
I have a problem - some application sends too many queries to my API (works by http). I have forbidden it in php and in .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} apikey=23e8a4dccbcfae76f73292fd5cc13f84 [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L])
But it doesn’t help. So my apache2/access.log has very-very big size and it leads to the lack of free space on server.
Can I ban this query in Apache and how can I do it?

UPDATE.
Queries are sent from the different ip-addresses and rarely (from one ip), so banning them by IP or by time limit won’t help…

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asb November 21, 2014

You’ll need to set RewriteEngine on before it will work. I would write it like this:

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)23e8a4dccbcfae76f73292fd5cc13f84(.*)$
        RewriteRule .* - [F]
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saband November 21, 2014

Thank you, but I needed block this URL in iptables.
If somebody has the same problem, read this article http://spamcleaner.org/en/misc/w00tw00t.html

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