Block access to all URL patterns containting /feed/

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We have an issue where spammers are subscribing to all our feeds. I already disabled all feeds via a function, as well as using a plugin.

Each day they still appear in our logs with thousands of entries. For example:

/leaderboard/feed/index.php
/leaderboard/feed/
/some-category/feed/

Is there any way to block access to all visitors querying /feed/ or anything containing the word "feed" in the URL via .htaccess, and deny them access to the site?

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regexapache.htaccessmod-rewrite

1 Answers

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Yes rewrite rules can do that:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^feed/ - [NC,F]

This will give forbidden error for every URI that starts with /feed/