Integration with vBulletin - Bad Behavior Integration

This is a simple integration of the Bad Behavior Script. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site?s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

I use this in conjunction with the Project Honeypot addon and the vBStopForumSpam addon. The three ought to be considered a layered defense at reducing spam and other unwanted traffic to your site that simply consumes resources.

*NOTE: The Project Honeypot addon has now added Bad Behavior implementation, which makes this implementation superfluous if you are using that plugin. Do not install if you have the latest version of the Project Honeypot.

I don't want to take credit for implementation as the idea originated with this thread

This is a simple implementation of the script and it will work but it will not provide any logging. I'll leave it to others who know more about how to improve this to enable logging.

Installation instructions:

1. Extract the contents of the zip file and upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum root. (Note: Latest stable version of bad behaviour can always be found here
2. Install Product.

Updates:
01/21/2010: Created Product file in lieu of plugin code to make it easier to install/uninstall.
01/22/2010: Added Bad Behaviour files for convenience.
01/24/2010: Simplified installation and included the php code within the plugin for the generic implementation of Bad Behavior per simonhind's suggestion below.
01/09/2011: Updated BadBeheavior.zip and included bad-behaviour files to 2.0.39
Added BadBehavior2.1.8.zip to include 2.1.8 developmental version

[chingon]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

Did you upload the directory contents in the zip file into your forum root? The zip file unzips into a bad-behaviour folder and you should upload that into your forum root.

The "no such file" seems pretty obvious that it cannot even find the file. Do you have a bad-behaviour-generic.php file within a bad-behaviour folder on your forum root?

Yes, it was all there, I deleted and uploaded 4 or 5 times but it still happened. Odd that it would not let me into the cpanel even. Oh well, I'll just pass on it.

[Alfa1]

So far this script seems to run well on a high traffic site. (2.5 million page views per month)

[TheSupportForum]

just to let people know what i got the latest stable release version working
and for those who need support in installing this

place the bad behavour folder in forumroot/includes

also you dont need to upload bad-behavior-generic.php

create a plugin for the php file
call it anything

Product: vBulletin
Title : Bad Behaviour Integration
Hook Location: global_complete
Plugin PHP Code:

Place the whole code from bad-behavior-generic.php leaving out <?php and ?>

locate: 'httpbl_key' =>
place you code there

[SemperFideles]

I'll check this out Simon. So if you put the bad-beviour folder within forumroot/includes the code inside of the plugin knows to go there to reference the other files it needs to run? Also, I'm not sure that putting the http:bl key in is a good idea if they already have your other mod installed. It may check the http:bl twice (once for your plugin and once for this) and cause page delays.

[vglobal]

Originally Posted by simonhind

create a plugin for the php file
call it anything

Don't understand this. Can you please explain a little more or give some exp?

Thanks

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by simonhind

just to let people know what i got the latest stable release version working
and for those who need support in installing this

place the bad behavour folder in forumroot/includes

also you dont need to upload bad-behavior-generic.php

create a plugin for the php file
call it anything

Product: vBulletin
Title : Bad Behaviour Integration
Hook Location: global_complete
Plugin PHP Code:

Place the whole code from bad-behavior-generic.php leaving out <?php and ?>

locate: 'httpbl_key' =>
place you code there

Simon,

Thanks for the idea. I'm switching to this implementation but, honestly, with your implementation, I'm probably going to just retire using this and just use yours.

After you guys finish your implementation of the HTTP BL dB integration, I hope you'll turn to the Bad Behavior script as it is supposed to provide quite a bit of capability.

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by vglobal

Don't understand this. Can you please explain a little more or give some exp?

Thanks

Made the modification to the code. You can also simply go to the Project Honeypot implementation to get more of an "all in one" solution.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

Made the modification to the code. You can also simply go to the Project Honeypot implementation to get more of an "all in one" solution.

thanks, for that, if you want to use my mod, thats great
i am turning this into an AIO and updating it with more features

[Shanti Nanda]

Originally Posted by chingon

wtf, my forum is gone and I get this:

Warning: require_once(bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'bad-behavior/bad-behavior-generic.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xsquid/public_html/forum/global.php(28) : eval()'d code on line 10

I can't even get in my admin panel, is this a joke??????

Happens the same with me, I followed the instructions of installation but my forum was gone at the end. I was really scared D':

I Uninstalled everything right away and I got my forum back .

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by Shanti Nanda

Happens the same with me, I followed the instructions of installation but my forum was gone at the end. I was really scared D':

I Uninstalled everything right away and I got my forum back .

Again, the problem is not bad-behaviour script. If the "exact same problem" occurred to you then, exactly as before, you have to make sure the file is where it is supposed to be.

A "file not found" error is a problem with *your* configuration of the plugin - that is, you don't have the file in the right place.