How to disable xmlrpc.php from .htaccess

Introduction

Often at time, malicious traffic can be occur by accessing xmlrpc.php rapidly, creating high server load, or causing limits to be reached within the server.  By configuring a .htaccess in the cPanel account to disable xmlrpc can provide better security.

Procedure

1.  Log into cPanel account 

2. Click File Manager

3. Access into public_html (or your website's content 's document root)

4. Create a new file and name it as ".htaccess"

5. Paste the following code:

# Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
<Files xmlrpc.php>
order deny,allow
 deny from all
 allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Files>

If you would like to retain XML-RPC from a particular IP, replace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' with your IP address, otherwise, you can simply delete the line or comment it out. 

6. Save and close the file