Hi first of all thanks a lot for the great mod.
But i have a problem,i am running spaomatic 2.1.2 on vbulletin 4.2.1, I installed spamomatic successfully but now when i administrator or other members try to post or post thread it says "Are you sure you want to leave the page" when i hit leave it takes me in to a blank page with this "Server Error".

When i extend the error for reason it says "The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.mydomain/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=2. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly."

Also when i disable the mod from plugin manager everything gets normal to back then..

I really need this mod please solve this issue for me.

???

I used an FTP utility to upload the contents of the upload folder to the root directory. I then used both the FTP utility and the File Manager in the cPanel of my web hosting service to verify that each of the following files is on the server:

admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php
includes/functions_ghsom.php
includes/xml/cpnav_ghostspamomatic.xml

Each file has the exact same size shown on the original copy on my local drive.

After uploading I imported the product_glowhostspamomatic.xml file using the product manager. I was then able to view and edit the settings in the Options section.

So please humor me. What am I missing?

dont be rude if you want help i will give it but no one here has to if they dont want to. As i am a nice guy i will look pass this, this time

The root folder was it www or public_html that you click into first?
Check you have not renamed admincp folder you can do this by checking your config or check url when logging into admin panel on forums

Check all files are uploaded to correct folders

Thanks a millionx You solved my problem ! my spam o matic is up and live on hunt :)

Rude? Are you kidding me? That is a form of self-deprecation.

I discovered that my web hosting service created a copy of my files when I migrated recently and I was copying the files to the duplicate version. Mystery solved.

Thanks!

Does this mod work in vBulletin 5.x? ;)

does this work in vB5?

Today this plugin started blocking all registrations until I turned off the 'IP Check' option.

Is anybody else having the same problem?

No. Still working great, the same as always.


You might want to check that you weren't just getting slammed by a bunch of bots or spammers at the same time (throughout the day) from known bad ips. It could appear that it was blocking everyone but in reality it could've been doing exactly what is was suppose to do ...that is until you turned it off.

I'd think the IP check option is very important. :p

Looks like a proxy server (or something) was introduced on my server recently so all users appear to come from the same IP address and the plugin thinks they are spammers. working w/ webhost to resolve. cheers

Two things to check:

1. Google speed?

2. Cloud VPS?

the web host thinks it is caused by varnish which does reverse proxy, looks like installing mod_rpaf should solve the issue.

thanks for suggesting google speed - i played around with that recently as well so that is a possible culprit..

I downloaded Spam-O-Matic, but found the install instructions to be a little bit confusing. It says upload "content" of the upload folder. I was told to actually upload the upload folder itself. Does this matter? Would like to see a little more specific locations. Where do you upload the product-glowhostspamomatic.xml? Our forum is in the /forum/ folder.

Our admincp folder was renamed. Does glowhostspamomatic.php get uploaded in it's admincp folder or in our renamed admincp folder? Thanks

Do the files go in these folders?

/forum/product-glowhostspamomatic.xml
/forum/includes/functions_ghsom.php
/forum/includes/xml/cpnav_glowhostspamomatic.xml
/forum/<renamed admincp>glowhostspamomatic.php

or these?

/forum/product-glowhostspamomatic.xml
/forum/upload/includes/functions_ghsom.php
/forum/upload/includes/xml/cpnav_glowhostspamomatic.xml
/forum/upload/admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php

In general for all product add-ons for vBulletin:

1) product-xxxxxxx.xml are always imported (this is usually shown as a single file outside the upload directory)
2) All files within the "upload" directory are uploaded as if upload = your forum directory.

does this work in vB5?

sorry does not yet.

Upload content of the upload folder into you forum root folder that mean admincp and includes.. after you upload both those folder rest should be easy

Thanks, bzcomputers. This was very clear.

Any ETA on v5 support? I don't really want to upgrade to v5 until spam-o-matic's available.

You don't really want to upgrade to v5 period.

I think the reason the author is holding out a v5 version is the same reason many other developers on here are.

can i remove the link from GlowHost ?

Really? I wish I knew that before I paid for it! Dare I ask...?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....72&postcount=5
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...tomer-Feedback

I'll stop going off topic, sorry.

Thank you very much for the heads-up!

Has anyone else run into the issue where the ACP main page says there are zero moderated posts, but when looking at new posts you find some?

I'm using vB 4.1.12 PL 3 and Spam-O-Matic ver 2.1.2 and am just curious to see if anyone else using this mod has run into this issue.

that sounds like a problem in your moderation system, not this mod.

Anyone know how to do that?

I have a problem. When the script sends a notification about spammer to StopForumSpam.com, then the user names that are written in the Cyrillic keyboard layout does not appear in the statistics. And I think that in general are not entered into the database. Although the logs on the site contains cyrillic usernames.

Here is example. As you can see after the script reports to StopForumSpam there are blank usernames written in cyrillic (win-1251).

hi, thanks for the plugin :)

In the log I get the time back two hours, how can I change it? thanks

My board started acting screwy, people that hadn't visited in a while and new people's threads ans posts go into moderation... I disabled Spam-O-Matic and they can post normally.... Any ideas ? I hadn't made any changes to the Spam-O-Matic settings before this started happening and never had an issue before... I'd like to get it figured out because this is a GREAT add-on and I want to turn it back on.

Thanks.

You need to change the options in it when you install just take a look at them so you understand

Me ?

I've had it running fine for like a year, this just started.

Did you make any changes to this mod or any other mod or any settings that vb have as default or maybe another admin did (check logs) or add any new ones

Nothing.

I'm the only Admin.

I am having a problem where known spammers (I checked the credentials on sfs.com) are being allowed to register.

However, it auto-moderates their posts like clockwork. (usually via akismet)

Any suggestions on why it would be passing the SFS even though they are listed as known spammers?

Hi,

New forum install... all setup, logged in as admin then when I go to post a new thread with Spam O Matic on it throws this error:

Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_newpost.php(554) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/skodafor/public_html/includes/functions_newpost.php(554) : eval()'d code on line 5

WIth it disabled forum works fine

Any ideas?

Rory

think the file was not uploaded lol

This mod is amazingly effective. thank you very much for it, I can finally have a forum on my website without it being inundated with spam bots :)

It's been 23 days since I installed this mod on my forum.
"19118 Spammers Denied Registration"