Is it possible to ban all ips that attempt to access a specific directory?

I've had a moveable type blog up for quite a while on my server that I didn't realize was being harvested for comment spam. I removed the blog but now get TONS of hits to the directories that I've deleted. Is it possible to just ban any ip that attempts to access the following directory:

http://www.mywebsite.com/mt/

 

Yeah, you could setup a mod_rewrite to disallow from any IP address to that directory. shouldn't be too hard to setup (sorry, I don't know the exact setup for it, but Google knows).

Here ya go: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess5.shtml

 

Maybe use a custom 40x that writes to htaccess.

 

I didn't only want to disallow, but wanted to ban that ip. Thanks for the tips, guys.

 

easy.
make an index.php page in that directory, get the user ip then shell_exec an iptable rule that drops any packet from that ip.