how to prevent rapid page request in php

Question

hey

these days im searching internet to secure my codes and my websites , and one point that i crossed and couldn't find a good and easy to learn solution was how to prevent rapid page request or in easy term DDOS ( not exactly that ) .

its really likely to happen if some bot or hackers trying to ddos a page , i want a way to stop it ,and user can only click and open a page every 2 seconds not requesting lots of queries in less than a second

my websites' platform is php/mysql

is there anyway to do so ?

thanx

Answer 1

If you are running Apache, you should do this at the server level instead of the application (PHP) level.

Try asking for the proper module on serverfault.com.