Title: RewriteEngine Off on wp-admin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# RewriteEngine Off on wp-admin?

 *  [Michael Tieso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vskylabv/)
 * (@vskylabv)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriteengine-off-on-wp-admin/)
 * What do you guys think of this?
 * _If you want to avoid this specific sort of attack, what you can do is add .htaccess
   files to wp-admin/, wp-content/, wp-includes/, etc. which turn off URL rewriting(“
   RewriteEngine Off”). This will then serve a generic 404 instead of having WordPress
   handle the request_
 * Will this break anything? Is this advisable? Would I copy exactly what’s on the
   home and paste it into each of those folders while turning off RewriteEngine?
 * Thoughts?

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 * [RewriteEngine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rewriteengine/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael Tieso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vskylabv/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rewriteengine-off-on-wp-admin/)
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