Reduce bots hits on particular URLs

Hi everyone,

Our journal runs on OJS 3.1.2.4.
Our application experiences many many hits on the following URLs, which I think come from bots:
[/ojs/index.php/xxxxx/notification/fetchNotification]
[ojs/index.php/xxxxx/$$$call$$$/page/page/css]

My question is, is there something I can do to reduce those hits, as it counts towards the server quota?
I blocked some IP addresses, but this is not a permanent solution, as different bots come every so often.

Thank you so much in advance.
Faruk

Hi Faruk

I find this site for detecting bots on the apache server. I never test this but it is worth testing it on your server to test if this method will work?

https://www.htaccessredirect.net/block-bots