Crashed the site with to many banned IP
 

I just crashed my site by adding the full length of IP address' from stopforumspam.com.
Now I can't get into the admin section to delete them. ANy ideas?


And at the top of the screen..........

Try disabling the functions for now. Open the php files and wrap the functions in comments
/* */ which should prevent it from using up all the memory. Go in, delete the banned IP's and then uncomment the functions.

Unfortunately, I'm not experienced enough to do that without more info. Any more help would be a huge help.

Go to the lines in the files specified (3075) in the first one. You'll see that it's a particular function, perhaps the middle of one. Scroll up until you can find the function definition (something like function Do_this() ). It might be in a class. Type /* before the function definition, and scroll down to find where it ends, should terminate with a } but not necessarily the first one you see, it will be tabbed in the same amount as the function line. Type a */ after the }.

Do this for both. There's probably an easier way to do this, but I've never had this problem. I -hope- you can kind of understand what I'm saying.

Do ya get into the php with the Cpanel on the server? A newby here..........

--------------- Added [DATE]1231387904[/DATE] at [TIME]1231387904[/TIME] ---------------

Normally I access the files through "Filezilla"
Is that the way?

--------------- Added [DATE]1231388060[/DATE] at [TIME]1231388060[/TIME] ---------------

OK, I figured it out. Thank you very much for the help. I got it going again thanks to your advice. And thanks Vbulletin.org for being there when things go wrong!!!

Can you please also post it in the bugtracker on vB.com.

It is not really a vB bug, but better report it as such so the developers are aware of this issue and might be able to put a check before such a large list is saved. Since this problem need manual edits to the database to resolve, it mightbe worth trying to prevent it.

Good idea. I looked at the IP address' after the problem and I see now there are 99 pages of them on a "word" document. Sheesh!