You are about to finish a PhD thesis. Somebody who obtained a PhD title is supposed to be able to organize and conduct reasonable projects independently. I think that your adviser is not being unreasonable in his demands.

Part of organization is also arranging to get more time, if your current time frame cannot be kept, or leads to serious degradation in quality and rigorousness. In some cases that might lead to working on your thesis without being funded. Personally, I would still advise to value doing a good job higher than meeting a deadline, but of course I cannot oversee all the consequences.

My thesis advisor is absent in my final stage of completing my Ph.D. programme
I run a website where "x.php" was known to have vulnerabilities. The vulnerability has been fixed and I don't have "x.php" on my site anymore.

As such with major public vulnerabilities, it seems script kiddies around are running tools that hitting my site looking for "x.php" in the entire structure of the site - constantly, 24/7.

This is wasted bandwidth, traffic and load that I don't really need.

Is there a way to trigger a time-based (or permanent) ban to an IP address that tries to access "x.php" anywhere on my site?

Perhaps I need a custom 404 PHP page that captures the fact that the request was for "x.php" and then that triggers the ban? How can I do that?

Thanks!

EDIT:

I should add that part of hardening my site, I've started using ZBBlock:


  This php security script is designed
  to detect certain behaviors
  detrimental to websites, or known bad
  addresses attempting to access your
  site. It then will send the bad robot
  (usually) or hacker an authentic 403
  FORBIDDEN page with a description of
  what the problem was. If the attacker
  persists, then they will be served up
  a permanently reccurring 503 OVERLOAD
  message with a 24 hour timeout.


But ZBBlock doesn't do quite exactly what I want to do, it does help with other spam/script/hack blocking.
