Ok, was this happening in 3.1.0?

Ditto same here. Never had this before.

I see the issue, use this XML for now. I had one of my own updates to my own table in the XML, that should not have been in there.

Simon can grab that XML, and update the OP when he comes on. :)

So far so good with the new file.

D.

New xml uploaded. Ozzy can you remove the in post ones to save confusion for people looking back through the thread?

Thanks for the update. I can't see any stats in the site statistics on the forum home.

EDIT: It works fine on my test forum. I am running vBOptomise and Total Online Time which both add stats below the "Welcome to our newest member" stats so unsure if this is causing an issue.

EDIT: I disabled vBOptomise and the stats popped up straight away.
Maybe worth a look into the conflict Simon?

Vboptimise is a caching mod, its possible that either you have to wait for the cache update or its using the same hook or template replacement. Ill check when i get home later.

I cleared the cache to check if it would update but no luck.

in Vb 5.1 new release don't work, i return to old release and work fine

I am running vBoptimize and the stats show fine for me. :confused:

This mod is for vB4 not vB5, it will not work in that version at all, as the required hook system is not available.

Done. :)

If I disabled the mod then the bots blocked shows or if I choose not to show how many queries it has saved me on forumhome, then blocked shows

That is weird, I have the queries showing on forum home, as well as the stats from this mod, and they both show.

What happens if you disable the Time Online mod?

If I disable the time mod it doesnt show. It will ONLY show if I disable the vBOptomise mod OR turn off the option to display the saved queries on forumhome.

I don't get it, :confused: . If you want. PM me a admin account, and I can try and figure out what is different between your site and my site, since I have it showing, and you don't. I can look into it later today when I get home from work.

Just installed the latest update, looks good!

It's working great here as well.

Question: Having a look at my "Guests" block on the home page.... I take it you updated things so that the blocked bots are no longer showing in there?

D.

Blocked bots shouldn't show anywhere except in stats...etc

Awesome!

D.

Based on this screen capture from today.... would you recommend I add anything additional to my list in the mod?

D.

Looks fine to me. :)

Was averaging about 400 Baidu bots a day still getting through before this last update. Now after 24 hours I'm seeing zero. Thanks!

Excellent, glad to hear it is stopping them for you. :)

Thanks guyz!

I'm working on a way to log all the blocked bots. Not sure if it will record every instance or just a total number for each bot. Will share my findings when I'm done.

Say what? This is already recording the blocked bots. In four different possible ways, in a log file, in a thread, in a email and the bots blocked count.

Now writing each bot individually to the DB, is not a good idea, as the table would grow too big, and be a giant PITA when you query it to get the info. Think about it, in just five days, only blocking baidu, I have a count of 9062.

Now lets take that and round it to 10,000 for seven days. Lets say I am going to block the 281 bots I have in my list. 281 x 10,000 x 52 = 146,120,000 entries a year. :eek:

Sure each bot is not going to hit me 10,000 times a week, but you can see, this can really grow fast. ;)

And my site is not that busy, now imaginge on a busy site, the entries to the table in the DB could be 250,000,000 plus a year. Now run a query to retrieve the info from that table, and it would hurt the site every time it is ran. :mad:

IMO, the best way to go is how it is now, just increase the count every time a bot is blocked, and get that number and display it. :)

Yep, you'd have to list every bot in the database then increment it's count every time you block it, that would be the easier way but your actually talking about constantly querying the database with redas and writes - definitely not a good idea, save your resources for your members.

Yes, I know Simon, I thought about doing it that way also, but the payoff, is not worth the trouble. It would bloat the mod, and become a resource hog in no time. :)

Thats what i'm saying, if all they want to do with their forums is watch bots/spiders (and thats not what the mod is about) then they'll have hours and hours of fun but no members as the forum would slow down to a snails pace.

People, just rest assured that the mod is doing it's job and giving you back valuable resources please dont waste them again by trying to build in fancyful functionality thats really a whim and not a must have :D

Exactly, which is why I only made it a count of total blocked, it's quick to write, and quick to read and display the count.

I used the analogy, KISS, keep it simple stupid. :)

:mad: who you calling stupid????? Lol!

I call myself stupid all the time, when I am writing code. :p

Haha!, i hear ya!

I understand where you are coming from but that is not my intention completely. I will log, for example, Baidu into the database and each time it is blocked, the count will go up by one. I just want to be able to query the DB to see a list of all blocked bots and how many times it was blocked. The log, output.txt, is messy IMHO and I want to be able to query the bots list.

I can see that, but as described, that is still going to be something that is totally un necessary, and still slow things down, on a busy site. :)

But it is cool in theory, I started to do just that, but decided against it as I was going along, and found the best thing was to have a running count total. People don't care how many times not X was blocked, just as long as it was blocked. :)

I have one question regarding Ban Spiders by User Agent. Since many of the User Agent's in the lists contain words like 'bot', 'spider' and 'crawl', will enabling the option Ban Spiders in List ban even good spiders from the forum???

e.g.
Google Spider (crawl-66-249-75-154.googlebot.com)
BingBot Spider (msnbot-157-55-39-186.search.msn.com)

It will only ban spiders you have listed, not all spiders.

I've explained this many many times throughout all the Ban Spiders By UserAgent threads, take a look here for the latest explanation https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=652