How to stop bots accessing a CSS page

  • sbbn

    (@sbbn)


    7 years ago

    Hello! I’m working on a site that’s using Bunyad Page Builder. I noticed today in our traffic stats that we have some bots accessing what appears to be a custom CSS page. The URL reads https://[redacted].com/?bunyad_custom_css=1&ver=35ae0ce22112147555fd55f435289fdd and it goes to a page that shows some CSS code for the appearance of the site (background image, etc.)

    Is there any way I can block access to that? This is a totally new issue for me so I hope I’m describing it correctly, I’m honestly not sure what’s going on. Thanks!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Your CSS has to be accessible. What is the harm in having a bot (especially something like a search engine) read your CSS?

    Thread Starter sbbn

    (@sbbn)

    The same bots accessing the CSS were trying to access wp-login.php and other similar sites. It seemed sketchy.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Bots will be bots. ??

    I use wordfence which tends to respond to bots with 503 errors on wp-login.php

    Thread Starter sbbn

    (@sbbn)

    Hmm. I just started using Wordfence too and seeing tons of bots hit that login page when I look at the live traffic. I must have the settings wrong — thanks for mentioning it, it gives me somewhere to start.

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