Ban IP address from Viewing

Is there a way to stop an IP address from even viewing the forum. I undertsand the current IP allows viewing but not posting?

To block an IP address from even viewing your Forum, you can use this .htaccess rule :

Code:

ORDER ALLOW, DENY
DENY FROM 123.123.123.123
ALLOW FROM all

Replace 123.123.123.123 with the actual IP address to be blocked.

There is a miserable user hack on the org. That can give great fun to the scum you enter into the ip box.

Gives page time outs, wrong pages etc etc. In the end they give up trying to access your website. I will also point out that trying it on yourself, unless you have a friend on standby to reset it, is not advisable. Experience is a wonderful thing

Originally Posted by Lee G

There is a miserable user hack on the org.

Here : Miserable Users. - vBulletin.org Forum

I have it set so anyone that gets banned goes into the miserable user group. For some reason, they dont complain or comeback. Must be a lot of spammers thinking my forums gone down

It does work rather well

Is there a way of doing this so it will automatically stop the IP of a banned member of a forum ever getting back in

We get loads of spammers at present

You could always compare $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to an array representing a blacklist and die(); accoringly at the the top of global.php...

As we too are getting hammered by spammers I decided to make some changes to the registration process. That works 'ok' but it's not strong enough.

I know it's possible to ban IP addresses through vB4's admincp which I am not considering using. I collected a few addresses from dodgy registrants and trawled the internet to see what's published on Banned IP addresses.

Found Banned IP Addresses which posts more than 23,000 IP's. That's loads - but it does raise the question how many addresses vB4 can handle in the 'ban-bin.'

Does anyone know?

Banning IP's is usually counter produtive. With proxies, its so easy to get around.

This addon has been very helpful for many people:
Stop Spam Bots from Joining - vBulletin.org Forum

Thanks Brian,

This certainly looks like a good option.

Need an industrial strength solution to keep these **ards out.

Cheers for responding!