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!

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

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?

no, i am using vb 4.2.0 pl3 i only noticed it yesterday in the logs
its a fresh install

[Simon Lloyd]

unfortunately i don't have vb4.0.2 just 4.1.14PL9 i will look and see what i can do though

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

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?

if thats the case /archive/index.php can't be redirected as designed if yours is running first which may be causing the issue which is why it shows that error in the log

off

i though that global_start was run first before everything else, which is what the mods told me style_fetch maybe run sometime after that

[Simon Lloyd]

Look at it like this:
User calls for url>global.php>global.php redirect>hook stylefetch gets called>user redirected because he's in ban list

So if thats the scenario then global.php has executed before the hook is called, so i still dont understand why it is then causing an issue.

Give me a few days, i have a friend who has vb4.0.2 and i'll ask if i can use his test site to work on this.

Feel free in the meantime to change the hook to global_start and see how you go on.

[Simon Lloyd]

I've been looking at this trying to recreate it on my vb4 test site and i found that i can only recreate it if i add require_once "global.php"; then i get your issue exactly. I'll keep you posted.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

I've been looking at this trying to recreate it on my vb4 test site and i found that i can only recreate it if i add require_once "global.php"; then i get your issue exactly. I'll keep you posted.

thanks for the update

[Simon Lloyd]

Hi Simon, can you try importing this product with overwrite and see how you go on?, i cant raise my friend at the moment so i've just excluded global.php in the script.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Hi Simon, can you try importing this product with overwrite and see how you go on?, i cant raise my friend at the moment so i've just excluded global.php in the script.

installed it now, also removed the error_log file

i will get back to you today with feedback on the changes

[TheSupportForum]

the following error is

PHP Code:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/hind1980/public_html/legijastranaca.com/includes/class_dm_user.php(1865) : eval()'d code on line 1 


[Simon Lloyd]

Ok, back to the drawing board!!, i don't get the error on vb4.1.14