Re: AGAIN Archive: 403 Forbidden
@5: If this unwanted traffic follows the patterns of what I've seen in the past, it's most likely poorly or maliciously programmed bots. They don't care that they're downloading the same files over and over and over again. What's more, even if you move those files, remove them, etc. they don't seem to care that they're now getting HTTP error responses, they just keep hammering on the same URLs again and again and again.
If you have access to the server as Root, I'd suggest investigating Fail2Ban. I'm pretty sure it has a module which will let you ban IP addresses generating floods of errors at the Iptables level, which means they will start getting absolutely nothing at all back from the site for a while, and each ban is logged so you can find out where your trouble's coming from and take appropriate actions.
Hope this helps.
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