Retour Plugin: Redirect Entire Directory to file

Question

Recently rebuilt a site that was on wordpress to Craft CMS, and I am seeing a ton of hits trying to find files in /wp-content - Is there a way I can just set Retour to catch any request for anything in the /wp-content directory are redirect it to a single image file?

Answer 1

FWIW, I would actually recommend doing this rewrite at the web server level, because then these accesses will have a much lower impact on your site.

If you add the redirect to Nginx (or whatever your webserver is), these bot-spam hits won't have to cause Nginx, Craft, etc. to kick in before they operate. An example is here for Nginx:

https://github.com/nystudio107/nginx-craft/blob/master/sites-available/somedomain.com.conf#L72

    # For WordPress bots/users
    location ~ ^/(wp-login|wp-admin|wp-config|wp-content|wp-includes|xmlrpc) {
        return 301 https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php;
    }

Answer 2

Got it. Figured I would keep this here for anyone else looking to do this (or similar).

.*/wp-content($|/.*)