Improve README.txt

does the errror message show the module with a hyphen ?

The message reads - Bad Behavior directory not found,

It can be confusing when you have a folder within a folder that is both same names, sometimes, instructions want you to remove the folder inside while others want you to put the whole thing, I wasn't sure based on the instructions. The module does appear to be installed.

I can confirm that module is not working. tried different ways to solve the problem that "Bad Behavior directory not found"

Hi!

I've got the same problem and I think it's because of unclear install instructions of zip file.

Ok, when you unzip the .zip file you get a Bad-Behavoir directory. The mistalke is copy it in .../modules/badbehavoir directory.

The right way is copying THE CONTENTS of Bad-Behavoir directory in .../modules/badbehavoir dir...

The final (and succesfully) structure is:

.../modules/badbehavoir
- file1
- file 2
-...
- file n
- subdirectoy bad-bahavoir (yes! the one in lowercase letters!)
--- file a
--- file b
--- ...
--- file n

Regards,

calbasi

I tried that too but still receive the directory not found message

Hello,

I'm using the 5.x version, but I got the same problem. Yes the README is rather thin.

The instructions for getting the badbehaviour module to work properly are, quoting from the README:

Installation
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1. Extract the tarball into the modules folder of your Drupal install.

2. Download BadBehavior 2.0.16 from
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-download/,

Unzip the archive. You should have a directory 'bad-behavior' under the Bad-Behavior
top directory:

In my case:

copy the resulting bad-behavior directory into the modules/badbehavior folder.

So the final structure will be:

3. Enable the module as usual from the Drupal admin>>modules page.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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Followed the instructions and doesn't work.
It matters not if you download latest version or version 2.0.13 of BadBehavior.
I copied the bad-behavior folder from Bad-Behavior to sites/all/modules/badbehavior so that it ended up like sites/all/modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior but no luck.

Once you get the first error at install time you don't get any other errors, but I found out it was not ok as I continued to get the same error of bad-behavior folder missing when I tried to enable the module in my other sites of my multisite installation.

Oddly enough, the module does work as you can see the module's log to fill with blocked access attempts :p (but I think that only if you download v2.0.13 of Bad Behavior).

In any case, thanks for I great module that enables such a needed feature and protection. I was going crazy with my sites crashing by aggressive visits from bots and weird connections.

I think Calbasi has it right above (though his/her description is still a bit cryptic ;) )

But the documentation DOES need to be corrected.

You do not copy the resulting bad-behavior directory to the badbehavior dir, you copy the CONTENTS of the bad-behavior dir to the badbehavior module dir. It's confusing because there is yet another bad-behavior folder in the bh install folder.

But, your module folder structure should look like this if you do it correctly:

..../drupal/modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior

Not like this:

..../drupal/modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior/bad-behavior

You'll end up with the latter if you follow the readme and the module won't work properly. Once I copied the contents of the bh install to the badbehavior folder created by the module, disabled and re-enabled the module, it worked as expected (so far)

I've come the same way. readme.txt instructions are outdated and confusing

1. Download link in the readme.txt file is outdated. The link on the project page is correct.
2. Change the installation text to explain (with example) where to install what.

The above is probably also applicable to the 5.x-1.x-dev version.

Thanks for the solution puriso is correct, and the README.txt should be corrected. The contents of the 1st bad-behavior folder should be copied directly under the original badbehavior folder, the second should be the same. The directory should look like this:
modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior
NOT
modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior/bad-behavior
Under the modules/badbehavior directory you should have the following files:
COPYING
LICENSE.txt
README.txt
bad-behavior-generic.php
bad-behavior-lifetype.php
bad-behavior-mediawiki.php
bad-behavior-wordpress-admin.php
bad-behavior-wordpress.php
badbehavior.info
badbehavior.install
badbehavior.module
index.html
Under the modules/badbehavior directory you should also have a bad-behavior folder with the following files:
banned.inc.php
blackhole.inc.php
blacklist.inc.php
common_tests.inc.php
core.inc.php
functions.inc.php
google.inc.php 0 k
housekeeping.inc.php
index.html
konqueror.inc.php
lynx.inc.php
movabletype.inc.php
mozilla.inc.php
msie.inc.php
msnbot.inc.php
opera.inc.php
post.inc.php
responses.inc.php
safari.inc.php
screener.inc.php
trackback.inc.php
version.inc.php
whitelist.inc.php

When you download the bad-behavior from the 3rd party site do not unzip it in the badbehavior folder like they say to. Instead unzip it some where else and then copy the files and folder to their respective places.