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 installSimply 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]

Product updated - new enhancements added.

[Simon Lloyd]

Beta product added for test purposes, has email capability please feed back if you use it.

[Simon Lloyd]

New product uploaded due to a typo!

[James T Brock]

vBulletin by default can already ban users by IP addresses easily by inserting one per line. What's the benefit of using this?

[Simon Lloyd]

The benefit of this is that you can add your own custom redirect message, your own custom redirect site, you can ban IP ranges like: 127.0.0 - 127.0.100 you can get email notification (beta) if designated IP's try to access your site.