Stopping an IP address

By scatteredbrainV on 19 Nov 2007 at 10:05 UTC

Hello.
There is someone who keeps on coming on my website and making strange searches.
Is there a way that I can block its IP from coming to my website?
Can I ban an IP and how can I do it?
Thank you!

Comments

use .htaccess

JohnForsythe commented 19 November 2007 at 10:23

Basically, you can use .htaccess to deny their IP. I wrote an article about this just a few weeks ago, take a look.

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Thank you! Very interesting

scatteredbrainV commented 19 November 2007 at 11:14

Thank you!
Very interesting article!

no .htaccess file

scatteredbrainV commented 22 November 2007 at 07:33

What if my drupal installation doesn't have an .htaccess file? Can I insert those few lines of code in the robots.txt file?
Or is there another option?
Thanks!

By default

r0g commented 22 November 2007 at 12:40

Drupal should install with a 4kb .htaccess file. This is important for security and cleanURLs. Are you sure you don't have this?

You can ban IPs directly from c-panel (if you have c-panel)

Regards,

Roger Heathcote - www.technicalbloke.com

.htaccess

JohnForsythe commented 22 November 2007 at 17:55

It won't work in robots.txt. You could create a new file called .htaccess and put it in there.

The best solution, however, is to download Drupal again and copy the .htaccess file over. As mentioned, it has some important stuff in it.

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Done

scatteredbrainV commented 23 November 2007 at 07:01

Strangely enough for me, the .htaccess file results in my backup version of the same site online. I wonder whether my host strips it away...
Anyhow, I updated the backup version of the .htaccess and I banned that IP, and then uploaded it. I'll wait and see if it works.
Thank you!

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mooffie commented 23 November 2007 at 07:57

Another possibility is to do that in Drupal itself: q=admin/user/rules

access rules

scatteredbrainV commented 23 November 2007 at 09:05

I set the deny option on the IP in the Access Rules section.
Let's see if it works.
BTW, the .htaccess file has been delited from my server, again.

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mooffie commented 23 November 2007 at 12:56

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> BTW, the .htaccess file has been delited

Perhaps the software you're using to browse that folder is configured not to show files whose name begins in '.' (dot)? These are considered "hidden files". Create some other file beginning in a dot and see if it gets "deleted" too.

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> [...] on the IP in the

People don't always have a fixed IP. You may need to use wildcards to ban a wider network. But remember to remove this ban after a few days.

Thank you mooffie. I tried

scatteredbrainV commented 26 November 2007 at 07:35

Thank you mooffie.
I tried the option "Show hidden files" but it did not display the .htaccess file.
Anyway, I noticed that the IP I banned has always been the same performing that search, so I used the access rules and denied that IP.
Till now, it seems like it is working.
Thank you.