404 error ban.

Hack: 404 error ban

By: Anime-loo

This hack provides you with a new way of banning people from your forum, i wrote this for a client awhile back and never released it, well i saw the blank page ban released so I decided to release mine .

This basicly dose what the thread title says, if a user is in the 404 banned usergourp they will get a "HTTP 404 - File not found" on any page powered by vBulletin.

Simple i know, but its been useful for me.

Download: Here

Version 2

Version two is now out, remove the the loo_404 template and do the new code edit for global.php to upgrade. do not run the query in the install file if you already have version 1 installed!!

[Erwin]

[removed because of confusion]

[Boofo]

Don't you mean this section?

PHP Code:

  $users=$DB_site->query("SELECT *
                          FROM user,userfield
                          WHERE $condition AND
                                user.userid = userfield.userid
                                ".iif($memberAllGood, " AND usergroupid NOT IN (1,3,4,8) ", "")." 


This is what will keep the names off of the memberlist. The code below will just show how many users, won't it? If I missed something, I apologize, Erwin.

Originally posted by Erwin
Open memberlist.php and replaced this section with the below:

PHP Code:

  $userscount=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS users
                                     FROM user,userfield,usergroupid
                                     WHERE $condition AND
                                           user.userid = userfield.userid
                                           ".iif($memberAllGood, " AND usergroupid NOT IN (1,3,4) ", "")."
                                           "); 


Add more usergroups to exclude in (1,3,4) in the code.

[Erwin]

Boofo, you're right - my memory is getting to me and I got confused by john's post - I've reverted back to my original post.

You don't add anything - just find that code section, and add usergroupids to exclude.

[Boofo]

You need to add the usergroupid to hide in both pieces of code, one for the count (your code) and one for the actual name (the $users code) below that.

[VeoMorphine]

Is there a way this can be done for IP/E-mail banned users as well? I dont like users coming back on proxys.

[Erwin]

Originally posted by VeoMorphine
Is there a way this can be done for IP/E-mail banned users as well? I dont like users coming back on proxys.

After you ban the member's IP and/or Email, just change their usergroupid to the one for 404 error ban.

[007]

I tried this and it still brings up the Sorry the administrator has banned your IP address... I was looking around in the files for the place that actually calls the template error_banip but I couldn't find it. Would there be anything I could do there to have IP banned users also get the 404 ban?

[Brad]

03-05-03 at 08:52 PM 006 said this in Post #37
I tried this and it still brings up the Sorry the administrator has banned your IP address... I was looking around in the files for the place that actually calls the template error_banip but I couldn't find it. Would there be anything I could do there to have IP banned users also get the 404 ban?

Open /admin/functions.php, find:

PHP Code:

eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_banip")."\");"); 


Replace with:

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
   header("Status: 404 Not Found");
   exit;

[007]

Oh yeah I figured that out a while ago. Thanks though. If anyone else is wondering that then you just got your answer!

lol

[lasto]

cant run the query for some reason :

SQL-query :

INSERT INTO usergroup
VALUES (

"333", "Banned", "", "0", "1", "1", "1", "1", "0", "1", "0", "0", "0", "1", "1", "1", "1", "0", "0", "1", "1", "1", "0", "0", "1", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "1"
)

MySQL said:

#1136 - Column count doesn't match value count at row 1