Do you know alternative of this option in WordFence?

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Can anyone help?
I need to use similar option to "block IPs that access these URLs" which is built-in Wordfence plugin.
I do not want to use Wordfence
Did a broad research but can not find any alternative plugin or how to self code a similar "honeypot".

I need when someone visits a pre-defined url i.e. site.com/do-not-visit
than the IP address of that person/bot to be auto blocked from accessing the website.

Any ideas ?
 
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I'm not sure about a WordPress security plugin. However, you can achieve this by creating a php file on your server, then setting up a redirect within WordPress/SEO Plugin, htaccess etc. to direct them to the php file once someone visits: "site.com/do-not-visit" --> "site.com/block.php"

Inside your block.php, you will need to log the IP address first of all:
Code: 
<?php
    $at = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    // This will create a blockedips.txt on your server
    $log = file_get_contents("blockedips.txt");
    $log = trim($log); // removes leading/trailing blank lines
    $log = explode("\n", $log);
    $log[] = $at;
    $log = array_unique($log);
    $log = implode("\n", $log);
    file_put_contents("blockedips.txt", $log);

    // Show a message?
    echo "Access Denied";
?>

Then you can add this into your theme header to read the file.
Code: 
<?php
    $ipArray = file('blockedips.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
    $allowed = true;
    foreach ($ipArray as $ipTest) if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == $ipTest) $allowed = false;
    // Block them if they are in the file
    if ($allowed != true) {
    header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
    die();
}
?>

Finally, add your paths to the ''robots.txt'' to prevent bots crawling and getting blocked:
Code: 
User-agent: *
Disallow: /block.php
Disallow: /do-not-visit/

Edit: You could also use RewriteMap if you have a compatible server
 
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Thank you, this sounds plausible I am going to try it out!
 
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