Blocking

[Airwalk2007]

Hello, A freind of mine is having problems with a person that is herasing her on her online journal and she has the ip of the person. Is there a code she can add to her journal to block this IP. It is a ip that stays the same

[Driftwood50]

Hi Airwalk 2007,

Check out "ZoneAlarm Pro." You can use the freeware (ZoneAlarm) which will never expire but the Pro version offers a variety of features including the ability to block individual IP's. Here's the site to read up on it.

Free Version:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...tails.jsp?lid=
zaskulist_info#benefits

Good Luck!

[ZeratulsAvenger]

I think he means an online journal entry site. And I dont know of anything, but could she contact an administrator and ask them about it? They would probably be able to help.

[kram 2.0]

I would presume there is a way to block individual IPs, but that would require CGI/Perl scripts or PHP/MySQL which I'm not too familiar with - does your server support those?

kram

[mairving]

Ask a simple question and get a couple of wrong answers.

One, using ZoneAlarm to block IP addresses will not work if Airwalk2007 has the site hosted elsewhere.

Two, you don't need CGI/Perl scripts or PHP/MySQL to block IP addresses. You could no doubt do it that way but that would be insane to even try when a much simpler tool is available.

The best solution would be to use mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file or a have a simple deny statement in there.

Example using mod_rewrite in .htaccess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^BANNED_IP_ADDRESS$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/URL_TO_BE_REDIRECTED_TO$
RewriteRule ^/.* /URL_TO_BE_REDIRECTED_TO

The variables are the BANNED_IP_ADDRESS, which is the IP that you are banning and URL_TO_BE_REDIRECTED_TO which is where you want to redirect them. You could make this your 404 page or create a special denied page. Probably best to make a page that says something like Site is currently down and redirect them to that.

Example using simple deny in .htaccess.

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from BANNED_IP_ADDRESS

The only variable would be BANNED_IP_ADDRESS.

Here is some more info on .htaccess.htaccess and mod_rewrite

You might also check with whoever hosts your site. Oftentimes they will have a control panel with an IP ban function.