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Banning IP Addresses

Dazman1360 — GMT

I have been using the Guestook for some time now, it's an excellent guestbook, but I'm now being attacked by the spammers! It seems to be the same IP address each time, is there a way i can block a specific IP address?

Auron — GMT

Search the forums.

Look in admin panel of the guestbook for ip banning.
its in there somewhere.

Dazman1360 — GMT

Thanks Auron. I can only find mention of banning IP addresses when using the advanced guestbook, is it feature of the standard guestbook?

JTD — GMT

Yes it is. Look in your admin page.

Skorch — GMT

Use a text file named.htaccess
set it up like below. Then the spammer can't even access any of your pages It results in a 403 error and then you canuse a custom error page to rub salt in it

order, allow, deny
deny from Spammer's IP
allow from all

Dazman1360 — GMT

[quote="Skorch"]Use a text file named.htaccess
set it up like below. Then the spammer can't even access any of your pages It results in a 403 error and then you canuse a custom error page to rub salt in it

order, allow, deny
deny from Spammer's IP
allow from all[/quote]

Thanks Skorch, but it seems that .htaccess files are not supported by the website hosts!

[quote="JTD"]Yes it is. Look in your admin page.[/quote]

OK, I'm feeling a bit thick now. I look in the admin page, and this is what I have:
[img]http://www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk/ips.jpg[/img]
If I click on the radar button next to the post, then I get the option to delete.

Sorry guys, can I have an idiots guide on how to do it.

neicul — GMT

Here is a general way to take care of unwanted IP's for you whole site. Inlcude this code in the header of your pages:

[code] $ipkill = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if ($ipkill == "put IP address here") { echo ''; }
?>[/code]

If you need to block more than one ip, use the same line again, but with elseif.

let me know how this works for you.