Hi,
I've tried to research how to do this properly but for fear of breaking my site with improper coding of htaccess - I could really use some experienced assistance with this question...
I have several bots, such as 'am az on aws' that just continue to return to my site, with an onslaught of different IP addresses, no matter how may ip's I block - I DO have a quality firewall installed and it does work, however, I can't spend day and night in it playing 'whack a mole' blocking these bots - and they're huge resource hogs.
I would like to edit htaccess to at least block several of these bad bots - but am unsure as to how it is supposed to be written correctly.
The CURRENT WP HTACCESS -
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
What I have researched needs to be added looks like the following:
order allow, deny
deny from _________.com
allow from all
But I need to know HOW to add this addendum correctly to the preexisting Wordpress htaccess document.
Could someone please advise?
Thank you.