Title: URL Blocking Question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# URL Blocking Question

 *  [learningasigo02346](https://wordpress.org/support/users/learningasigo02346/)
 * (@learningasigo02346)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-blocking-question/)
 * Hi,
 * In my live traffic view, I see attempts to access the following non-existent 
   URLs:
 * [http://mywebsite/themes/cooltheme//lib/scripts/dl-skin.php](http://mywebsite/themes/cooltheme//lib/scripts/dl-skin.php)
 * and
 * [http://mywebsite/themes/whatevertheme//lib/scripts/dl-skin.php](http://mywebsite/themes/whatevertheme//lib/scripts/dl-skin.php)
 * Hoping to immediately block IP addresses related to attempts like these, I put:
 * /lib/scripts/dl-skin.php
 * in the box labeled “Immediately block IP’s that access these URLs”
 * Looking at the live traffic, this doesn’t seem to work. I see repeated attempts
   by the same IP address to access non-existent URLs ending in: /lib/scripts/dl-
   skin.php
 * Am I doing something wrong? If so, could someone please provide the correct syntax
   for this option?
 * Thanks!
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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-blocking-question/#post-5754876)
 * Have you tried putting the full URL in?

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