How to block access to specific URL?

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I am getting thousands of bot visits every hour to one specific URL of my website http://www.domain.com/.gtput/

I would like to block ALL traffic (human+bot) trying to access this URL. (This URL is not accessed by human, though!)

After lot of googling, I found an answer that worked from here --> Anyway to block visits to specific URLs, for eg via htaccess?. I am using following code in htaccess file to block this URL.

<IfModule mod_alias.c> Redirect 403 /.gtput/ </IfModule>

Is there a BETTER way to block ALL traffic from accessing that one specific URL? So that I can save server resources (bandwidth etc.).

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-11 08:13:43Z

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You can use the following Rule to forbid access to "/.gtput" :

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /.gtput/? [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

edited Jun 11, 2015 at 8:13

answered Jun 11, 2015 at 8:04

Amit Verma

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himagarwal Over a year ago

Thank you for the help Starkeen but unfortunately after removing the code Redirect 403 /.gtput/ and adding your code, it didn't work. As moreover now traffic (bots) started accessing the page. (One more thing that I forgot to add in the above question was that - there is no page with that url in the site).

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