Miscellaneous Hacks - Ban IP's In vBulletin Options Easily

What this mod does
With this simple mod you can enter a list of IP's that you want to ban (redirect) one per line, when trying to access your site the user of the IP will be redirected to an obscure google page with a 301 permanent redirect.

What this mod won't do
With this mod you cannot ban partial ranged IP's laid out like this 2.23.123 - 2.23.130

How to install
Simply go to Admincp>Manage Products and import product-baniparray.xml

Please mark as installed if you use this!

Version History
v1.0.1
Made it possible to use partial IP addresses
v1.0.2
Added custom redirect message box
Added custom redirect url box
Added IP Range boxes for banning IP's that fall within range
Ranged IP's parsed during checks
vbetaadded for test purposes 9/08/2011
Beta has email notification ability, this beta is for those of you that wish to test it and feed back!


Checked range block working only against my IP range, please report any bugs!

[Simon Lloyd]

Edit: Must be a conflict with another mod you have.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Edit: Must be a conflict with another mod you have.

i dont have any IP blocking scripts that use your

PHP Code:

function ip_redirect($to, $code = '301 Permanently Moved') 


which points to your script

its does seem obvious to me its your function that's causing the issue shown in the erro_log, this is not shown on the main forum as an eror

PHP Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare ip_redirect() (previously declared in  /archive/global.php(40) : eval()'d code:95) in /includes/class_bootstrap.php(996) :  eval()'d code on line 99 


[Simon Lloyd]

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?

yeah

as its a fresh install no pronlem

[tambo]

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

[TheSupportForum]

for 4.2.0 pl3 it seems to be

PHP Code:

exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bburl', array())); 


which has a header redirect, so 2 redirects are occurring, your ip_redirect

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by tambo

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

you have a point there, i suppose the developer should use that array in the plugin instead of a new textarea

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Can you check your /archive/global.php to see if it contains ip_redirect?

just checking it furthur this is the whole script that is affecting it

PHP Code:

// #############################################################################
// ### CACHE PERMISSIONS AND GRAB $permissions
// get the combined permissions for the current user
// this also creates the $fpermscache containing the user's forum permissions
$permissions = cache_permissions($vbulletin->userinfo);
$vbulletin->userinfo['permissions'] =& $permissions;
// #############################################################################

// check that board is active - if not admin, then display error
if ((!$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] AND !($permissions['adminpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_adminpermissions['cancontrolpanel'])) OR !($permissions['forumpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']))
{
    exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bburl', array()));
}

// if password is expired, deny access
if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $permissions['passwordexpires'])
{
    $passworddaysold = floor((TIMENOW - $vbulletin->userinfo['passworddate']) / 86400);

    if ($passworddaysold >= $permissions['passwordexpires'])
    {
        exec_header_redirect(fetch_seo_url('forumhome|bburl', array()));
    }
}

verify_ip_ban();

$cache_templates = array('ad_archive_above_content1', 'ad_archive_above_content2', 'ad_archive_below_content');

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('archive_global')) ? eval($hook) : false;

cache_templates($cache_templates, $style['templatelist']);
unset($cache_templates); 


[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by tambo

Other than the ability to redirect to a custom page (which is quite an attractive feature, BTW), what is the difference between this mod and the standard IP Banning options under:

ACP > User Banning Options > Banned IP Addresses

Thanks,
TM

This does much more, did you read the settings?, you can ban single ip's, ip ranges, redirect to url of your choice and have notification if specific ip's have accessed your site - different enough?

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by simonhind

just checking it furthur this is the whole script that is affecting it

PHP Code:

Code displayed above! 


Thats the archive/global.php, i cant seem to recreate it on my test site, my mod works at style fetch, so pretty much before anything else has been executed so redirect happens then, do you have any mods or custom code in your fresh install?