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Protection against DDoS

Friday, September 5, 2003 Articles, Tips Comments Off on Protection against DDoS

If you have access for editing an .htaccess file on a server, paste the rules below for protection against DDoS on your WordPress site.

# BEGIN Protection against DDoS

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp-login.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !paddos_bQvPk=1 [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/(?:\ Ballot169)?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1/ [R,L]

# END Protection against DDoS

The rules that you are applying may keep you from entering as well so log in first to the Dashboard (and be sure to accept cookies while doing so) then add the rules.

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