2025-12-05

Malicious Bots Won’t Stop—Let’s Cut Them Off at the Front with Nginx: Cleaning Up Weird URLs Early

When you expose a web application, malicious bots and scanners will bombard it with odd requests. This guide shows how to use nginx’s 444 status code and a shared `blackhole.conf` to pre‑emptively block those URLs, reducing log noise, CPU usage, and improving operational efficiency.