how to hide Wordpress debug.log from bots using .htaccess

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How do I hide Wordpress debug.log from search bots using .htaccess?

i.e: /wp-content/debug.log

Thanks.

If only restrict from search engines onnly nedd to disallow it in robots.txt. But this file shouldn't download by all, so you can protect it by auth: htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection — bato3
– bato3, Commented Jan 15, 2018 at 13:11

Steve · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-16 12:22:33Z

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I found the answer from another site which Wordfence had hidden for me.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?wp\-content/+debug\.log$
        RewriteRule .* - [F,L,NC]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    <Files "debug.log">
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all denied
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </IfModule>
    </Files>
</IfModule>

answered Jan 16, 2018 at 12:22

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2 Comments

Bence Szalai Over a year ago

What is the point of /? in the RewriteCond line? If we expect the server to not trim / characters before doing the match, it should be /*, to prevent access to example.com///wp-content... etc. If we expect the server to trim them, /? is not needed. I'm also not sure how much adding [NC] to the RewriteRule line helps, if the RewriteCond is case sensitive. Again, if we expect the server to be in case insensitive mode, than RewriteCond should have the [NC] flag. If we expect example.com/wp-content/DEBUG.log to give a 404, than [NC] is not needed on the RewriteRule line.

Svetoslav Marinov Mar 22 at 17:59

the point of /? is that if when you add the rules in .htaccess vs vhost conf. I can't remember which one removed the leading slash

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