Ban IP's In vBulletin Options Easily

[Simon Lloyd]

What this mod does
With this simple mod you can enter a list of IP's that you want to ban (redirect) one per line, when trying to access your site the user of the IP will be redirected to an obscure google page with a 301 permanent redirect.

What this mod won't do
With this mod you cannot ban partial ranged IP's laid out like this 2.23.123 - 2.23.130

How to install
Simply go to Admincp>Manage Products and import product-baniparray.xml

Please mark as installed if you use this!

Version History
v1.0.1
Made it possible to use partial IP addresses
v1.0.2
Added custom redirect message box
Added custom redirect url box
Added IP Range boxes for banning IP's that fall within range
Ranged IP's parsed during checks
vbetaadded for test purposes 9/08/2011
Beta has email notification ability, this beta is for those of you that wish to test it and feed back!


Checked range block working only against my IP range, please report any bugs!

[bosanci28]

well when i enable in 4.1.5 i get this error:

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(917) : eval()'d code on line 13

[Simon Lloyd]

When you enabled it did you have any ip's in the list? if not it will produce an error.

[bosanci28]

yap,that fixed it.

now let say i ban someones ip,and then i will erase his account,what will happen then?
can he register again or?

thanks friend.

[Simon Lloyd]

yap,that fixed it.

now let say i ban someones ip,and then i will erase his account,what will happen then?
can he register again or?

thanks friend.No not with the same IP, if they use the same IP they will never get to see your site again only the redirect site. There will be further enhancements coming soon with this mod :)

[FReeSTER]

No not with the same IP, if they use the same IP they will never get to see your site again only the redirect site. There will be further enhancements coming soon with this mod :)

Good stuff, I will tag for later use. Cant wait for more options. lol

[DonosOdD]

I can see this is good work in progress. Tagged for later.

[steve1966]

Hi thank you but where do i add the isp in the usual banning options page?

[Simon Lloyd]

If you mean in my mod then it's self explanatory. This mod does not interact with or affect vb's built in banning options page.

[Simon Lloyd]

Product updated - new enhancements!

[Boofo]

Looks good. How about an email notification on select blocked IPs?

[Simon Lloyd]

Lol, you haven't marked this as installed!, i can do that but lets see how the mod floats for now before i go messing around with it, if everyone is happy over the next week then i'll add either emailing, creating a thread or writing to a log on your server.

[Simon Lloyd]

To be honest the log is probably the better way to go or you could get thousands of emails or threads created!

[Boofo]

There, I marked it as installed even though I have not installed it yet. The email option would work best for me, but only for those IPs I designate, not for all of them in the setting.

[Simon Lloyd]

Well thats probably going to be an add on then rather than a mod change as i think you are talking about not having emails from the blocked range and not having emails from those sigularly blocked, you want to be able to have a section where you enter IP's and emails sent to you if they access your site?

[Simon Lloyd]

Beat product added with email capability. :)

[Boofo]

Well thats probably going to be an add on then rather than a mod change as i think you are talking about not having emails from the blocked range and not having emails from those sigularly blocked, you want to be able to have a section where you enter IP's and emails sent to you if they access your site?

Yes. Whether they are in the block setting or not. I will test it and let you know.

[Simon Lloyd]

Boofo, uninstall that last beta and install the new one, the last one had a typo so wouldn't work!

[Boofo]

Downloaded. Thanks.

[steviewonder44]

Thanks this will help

[Simon Lloyd]

Hope you like it :)

[TombstoneWarrior]

should i use the beta.xml or the 4.xml?

[Simon Lloyd]

The beta is stable it was in beta when i added the emailing capability, thats the only difference, so if you dont want emailing capability then the 4.xml is fine :)

[TombstoneWarrior]

installed in 4.1.9 and get this error evveytime with both xml files>>>>>>> error>>>>>>>>>>> Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(965) : eval()'d code on line 12

[BlueCheri]

I was getting following error:

Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(965) : eval()'d code on line 181

G!

installed in 4.1.9 and get this error evveytime with both xml files>>>>>>> error>>>>>>>>>>> Warning: stristr() [function.stristr]: Empty delimiter in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(965) : eval()'d code on line 12

[Simon Lloyd]

If you've installed this please mark it as installed :)

You got that error because you have the mod activated but no IP's in the list to deal with, deactivate it until you have use for it ;)

[TombstoneWarrior]

If you've installed this please mark it as installed :)

You got that error because you have the mod activated but no IP's in the list to deal with, deactivate it until you have use for it ;) i uninstalled it thats why its not marked as installed... ill wait to install if i need this mod

[TombstoneWarrior]

5 stars and marked as installed reinstalled since you gave me he code error reason thank you very much!!!

[Simon Lloyd]

Your welcome, try out my ban spider by useragent and you'll save on valuable resources too :)

[TheSupportForum]

bug found :




PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ip_redirect() (previously declared in
/archive/global.php(40) : eval()'d code:95) in /includes/class_bootstrap.php(996) :
eval()'d code on line 99

[Simon Lloyd]

Edit: Must be a conflict with another mod you have.

[TheSupportForum]

Edit: Must be a conflict with another mod you have.

i dont have any IP blocking scripts that use your

function ip_redirect($to, $code = '301 Permanently Moved')

which points to your script

its does seem obvious to me its your function that's causing the issue shown in the erro_log, this is not shown on the main forum as an eror

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ip_redirect() (previously declared in /archive/global.php(40) : eval()'d code:95) in /includes/class_bootstrap.php(996) : eval()'d code on line 99

[Simon Lloyd]

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?

[TheSupportForum]

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?


yeah

as its a fresh install no pronlem

[tambo]

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

[TheSupportForum]

for 4.2.0 pl3 it seems to be


exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bbur l', array()));


which has a header redirect, so 2 redirects are occurring, your ip_redirect

[TheSupportForum]

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

you have a point there, i suppose the developer should use that array in the plugin instead of a new textarea

[TheSupportForum]

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?

just checking it furthur this is the whole script that is affecting it



// ################################################## ###########################
// ### CACHE PERMISSIONS AND GRAB $permissions
// get the combined permissions for the current user
// this also creates the $fpermscache containing the user's forum permissions
$permissions = cache_permissions($vbulletin->userinfo);
$vbulletin->userinfo['permissions'] =& $permissions;
// ################################################## ###########################

// check that board is active - if not admin, then display error
if ((!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND !($permissions['adminpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adminpermissions['cancontrolpanel'])) OR !($permissions['forumpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']))
{
exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bbur l', array()));
}

// if password is expired, deny access
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $permissions['passwordexpires'])
{
$passworddaysold = floor((TIMENOW - $vbulletin->userinfo['passworddate']) / 86400);

if ($passworddaysold >= $permissions['passwordexpires'])
{
exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bbur l', array()));
}
}

verify_ip_ban();

$cache_templates = array('ad_archive_above_content1', 'ad_archive_above_content2', 'ad_archive_below_content');

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('archive_global')) ? eval($hook) : false;

cache_templates($cache_templates, $style['templatelist']);
unset($cache_templates);

[Simon Lloyd]

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

This does much more, did you read the settings?, you can ban single ip's, ip ranges, redirect to url of your choice and have notification if specific ip's have accessed your site - different enough? :)

[Simon Lloyd]

just checking it furthur this is the whole script that is affecting it



Code displayed above!
Thats the archive/global.php, i cant seem to recreate it on my test site, my mod works at style fetch, so pretty much before anything else has been executed so redirect happens then, do you have any mods or custom code in your fresh install?

[TheSupportForum]

Thats the archive/global.php, i cant seem to recreate it on my test site, my mod works at style fetch, so pretty much before anything else has been executed so redirect happens then, do you have any mods or custom code in your fresh install?

no, i am using vb 4.2.0 pl3 i only noticed it yesterday in the logs
its a fresh install

[Simon Lloyd]

unfortunately i don't have vb4.0.2 just 4.1.14PL9 i will look and see what i can do though :)

[TheSupportForum]

Thats the archive/global.php, i cant seem to recreate it on my test site, my mod works at style fetch, so pretty much before anything else has been executed so redirect happens then, do you have any mods or custom code in your fresh install?


if thats the case /archive/index.php can't be redirected as designed if yours is running first which may be causing the issue which is why it shows that error in the log

off

i though that global_start was run first before everything else, which is what the mods told me style_fetch maybe run sometime after that

[Simon Lloyd]

Look at it like this:
User calls for url>global.php>global.php redirect>hook stylefetch gets called>user redirected because he's in ban list

So if thats the scenario then global.php has executed before the hook is called, so i still dont understand why it is then causing an issue.

Give me a few days, i have a friend who has vb4.0.2 and i'll ask if i can use his test site to work on this.

Feel free in the meantime to change the hook to global_start and see how you go on.

[Simon Lloyd]

I've been looking at this trying to recreate it on my vb4 test site and i found that i can only recreate it if i add require_once "global.php"; then i get your issue exactly. I'll keep you posted.

[TheSupportForum]

I've been looking at this trying to recreate it on my vb4 test site and i found that i can only recreate it if i add require_once "global.php"; then i get your issue exactly. I'll keep you posted.

thanks for the update

[Simon Lloyd]

Hi Simon, can you try importing this product with overwrite and see how you go on?, i cant raise my friend at the moment so i've just excluded global.php in the script.

[TheSupportForum]

Hi Simon, can you try importing this product with overwrite and see how you go on?, i cant raise my friend at the moment so i've just excluded global.php in the script.

installed it now, also removed the error_log file

i will get back to you today with feedback on the changes :)

[TheSupportForum]

the following error is

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/hind1980/public_html/legijastranaca.com/includes/class_dm_user.php(1865) : eval()'d code on line 1

[Simon Lloyd]

Ok, back to the drawing board!!, i don't get the error on vb4.1.14

[TheSupportForum]

Ok, back to the drawing board!!, i don't get the error on vb4.1.14

the error does not appear on the forum, it only appears in the error_log.log file in forum root

the forum does not show any error with code

[Simon Lloyd]

I undersatnd that but im not seeing it in my error logs at all, i've checked the syntax of the latest code i've given here http://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/ and it all checks out - im at a loss until i can get my hands on my friends vb4.02 and try it there.

[TheSupportForum]

I undersatnd that but im not seeing it in my error logs at all, i've checked the syntax of the latest code i've given here http://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/ and it all checks out - im at a loss until i can get my hands on my friends vb4.02 and try it there.

thats no problem at all, i only noticed it the other day in my logs
strange it shows in the logs and not on the main page :(

[dwerden]

I have installed this add-on into my VB 4.2, but I can't figure out how to add the IP list. I'm new to using plug-ins, so maybe I'm missing something obvious (probably!). How do I get to the right screen to do this?

Thanks!

[Simon Lloyd]

AdminCp>Settings>Ban IP's

[dwerden]

Ah, I KNEW I was missing something simple! Thanks for pointing out the menu string.