The following features are "core features" and are always free: Country Blocking, Custom IP Whitelisting, Custom IP Blacklisting, Logging, and limited access to the APIs. These core features are available by default, whether or not you choose to activate a free trial, and continue to be available even after a free trial expires.

What does RewriteBase / do? I haven't used that yet but I do have some re-directs.

Since "we" want to apply rewrites for the entire Vhost / Directory or wherever you placed your rewrite, we set it this way.
RewriteBase has to be absolute related to the location where you want to apply it's rules.
If you place it with

RewriteBase /

in your Docroot <directory> block it rules apply for all handled subdirectories, if you place it inside a <directory> block only this directory.
Another way would be placing it inside your Docroot <directory> block and using another RewriteBase.
As example:

And

Basically do the same. Up to you on how you want to organize your rules. I've a "rewrite.conf" file that is loaded via include - more easy to overview for me.

Well - that was kinda off-topic :D

And about the plugin:

I would still keep the point that it's not good to apply blocks at the latest level of the chain because the IP and the traffic already made it the PHP parser and PHP is busy reading the IP via REQUEST or X_FORWARDED_FOR, open a database, read more data, compare, apply or not apply block etc. etc. etc.

And someone who can't create a .htaccess or add a line like:

Deny from 254.254.254.254

To block this IP shouldn't maybe have his own server and rent either a managed machine or some shared hosting.

Blocking via PHP is like letting the burglar into your house then trying to take care of him while it would be better to just close the door and the windows that he can't even make it into.

hello,

Yes i did see that (the one week trial) but vb.org rules say this kind of plugins are not permitted here... still it can be usefull (and helpfull) for users who are not so "technical" when i need to block a whole country i just configure iptables todo it but i can understand this is not so easy as this plugin can do

Thank you for your suggestion. UpsideOut has updated the features page to more clearly outline the core features. Please note that there are more features included for free than have been previously mentioned. :)

Actually, it's a one week free trial of the FULL version then it reverts to the free or "lite" which still retains the core features and as you can see upsideout has calrified that below and they have updated their features page to reflect such ;).

http://www.blockscript.com/features.php

No thank you for the clarification :D.

I've been trying to install this script and plugin and keep getting loads of stupid errors.
If I install the plugin it complains about the paths:
Warning: include_once([path]/../../blockscript/detector.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(331) : eval()'d code on line 6

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening '[path]/../../blockscript/detector.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in [path]/includes/init.php(331) : eval()'d code on line 6

Disabling the plugin (which means disabling all plugins completely because nothing will load) I tried to just install the script by itself and was met with a load of inexplicable errors about .htaccess files and 403 errors
*sigh*

irishblacknight,

Note, this plugin is for integration into vBulletin and you will need to setup BlockScript first.

Please ensure you have uploaded the BlockScript package, set the appropriate permissions, and configured the options in the BlockScript Control Panel before using this plugin.

If you still encounter difficulties, please contact us via the contact form on our website and we will be happy to assist you further.

Hmmm
So your install docs are a bit lacking :)

Basically I've tried installing the script by itself and then adding the plugin, but neither method works.

It's also not mentioned anywhere in the docs you ship with the plugin that ioncube loaders are needed.

Thank you for the feedback and we apologize for any confusion. The readme.txt file in the blockscript folder contains a link to the installation instructions for BlockScript (http://www.blockscript.com/install.php). Manual integration instructions are also provided on this page (if you prefer to manually integrate BlockScript). The readme.txt file in the plugin folder contains instructions for installing the plugin.

BlockScript does require ioncube loaders and they are included with the package when downloaded from the BlockScript website, however, we weren't able to attach them with this plugin because of the file size limitation.

If you still encounter difficulties, please contact us via the contact form on our website and we will be able to provide timely assistance.