Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.The path2ban module allows users to block web scanner's attacks from individual IP addresses.
The module maintains a list of suspicious paths. All attempts to scan these paths will be logged. Users can add or remove entries from this list.
- admin.php
- admin/index.php
- bitrix/admin/index.php
- administrator/index.php
- wp-login.php
- and others.
The module can send notification emails to administrator.
This module will start working after you enable it.
You can setup module on configuration page (admin/config/people/path2ban).
Default values:
path2ban_threshold_limit = 5
path2ban_threshold_window = 3600
Means that an IP will be banned after 5 visits to suspicious paths in an hour.
Drupal 8
For a module that provides similar functionality under Drupal 8 please see Drupal Perimeter Defence.
Project information
- Project categories: Access control, Administration tools, Security
776 sites report using this module- Created by Ivan Simonov on , updated
Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
There are currently no supported stable releases.
