Hi.
The above code doesn’t works for me!
Checkout these logs:
[403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:14 am] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 66.155.11.18 Host Name: wordpress.com SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 66.155.11.18 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:16 am] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 14.99.54.86 Host Name: static-86.54.99.14-tataidc.co.in SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 14.99.54.86 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.124 Safari/537.36 [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:04 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.129 Host Name: 209.15.21.129 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.129 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:32 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 66.155.11.24 Host Name: wordpress.com SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 66.155.11.24 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:36 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.100 Host Name: 209.15.21.100 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.100 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:40 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.83 Host Name: 209.15.21.83 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.83 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:40 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.133 Host Name: 209.15.21.133 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.133 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:42 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.131 Host Name: 209.15.21.131 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.131 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com [403 GET / HEAD Request: October 10, 2014 - 8:45 pm] Event Code: BFHS - Blocked/Forbidden Hacker or Spammer Solution: N/A - Hacker/Spammer Blocked/Forbidden REMOTE_ADDR: 209.15.21.100 Host Name: 209.15.21.100 SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CLIENT_IP: HTTP_FORWARDED: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 209.15.21.100 HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: REQUEST_METHOD: GET HTTP_REFERER: REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php?for=jetpack QUERY_STRING: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Jetpack by WordPress.com
I think, they are using different set of IP addresses! I have deleted the root .htaccess file and tried again. But not worked. (After deleting the .htaccess file, I have checked the xmlrpc.php, still it is 403!!!!!!!!
Please help.
Thanks.