# Banning phpMyAdmin bots using fail2ban

<http://www.foosel.org/blog/2008/04/banning_phpmyadmin_bots_using_fail2ban>

- Host: [foosel.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/foosel.org/)
- Saved: May 18, 2012 (2012-05-18T13:10:59Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ad181e1c3096/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ad181e1c3096.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

I've had it with those evil bots trying to exploit non-existing phpMyAdmin installations on anything webserverish, therefore I wrote up a small fail2ban rule to ban those bastards after the third attempt. Maybe it's of help to you too, thus here it is.

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