By saband
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:
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...This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
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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]
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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