After upgrading from PHP 7.2 to 7.4.x, I was taking a look at my graphs in new relic for my wordpress blog and found a high number of E_WARNINGs for //xmlrpc.php. It’s a result of bots hitting a non-existent URL at //xmlrpc.php – note the extra slash in there. The default nginx behavior is to… Continue reading blocking bad bots in nginx from xmlrpc.php