[turtle]

New host and things are working quite right. This used to work with an old host but haven't been able to get it working. My idea came from this post on a really old host's forum. So the basic idea is some bot crawls my site and ignores my do not enter sign in the robots.txt. In doing so they follow a link to a php function that gets their IP address and adds it to a txt file. That file is referenced in the .htaccess where if your number is in there you are 403'd out of the site.

So my .htaccess looks like this only with more bad_bot entries

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Wildsoft Surfer" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WWWOFFLE" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Xaldon WebSpider" bad_botSetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^ZBot" bad_bot<Limit GET POST>Order Allow,DenyAllow from allDeny from env=bad_bot</Limit>SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ban-ip\.txt ban<Files ~ "^.*$">order allow,denyallow from alldeny from env=ban</Files>

My sandtrap URL in my main index.html is

<div style="display:none;"><a href="http://mydomain.com/sandtrap">Sandtrap, I wouldn't click here if I were you.  You need to allow Java Script on this site. :) </a></div>

robots.txt is this plus a few more things

User-agent: *Disallow: /sandtrapDisallow: /ban-ip

My sandtrap/index.php has this in it

PHP Code:

<?php 
$ip = "$REMOTE_ADDR\n" ; 
$banip = '/home/username/public_html/ban-ip/ban-ip.txt'; 
$fp = fopen($banip, "a"); 
$write = fputs($fp, $ip); 
fclose($fp); 
?>

List of banned IPs in /home/username/public_html/ban-ip/ban-ip.txt

Problem being is it's not working on my new server. Two issues. One is that the users IP isn't being added to the ban-ip.txt. It is adding a new line to the file, but not an IP. Then, even after manually adding my IP to the list I'm not being blocked at all. Can anyone with some better guidance step in here and help me out with this?

[turtle]

I found this function/script that seems to work well in getting the IP and would love to see if incorporated if someone who know php far better than me wouldn't mind help out with this. I'd love the page to display their IP and add it to the ban-ip.txt file.

PHP Code:

<?php 
if ( isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] . ' '; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] . ' '; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] . ' '; 
} 
echo 'Clients IP  Address: ' . $ip; 
?>

Edit: So in messing around I came up with this:

PHP Code:

<?php 
if ( isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] . ' '; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] . ' '; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] . ' '; 
} 
$banip = '/home/turtle24/public_html/ban-ip/ban-ip.txt'; 
$fp = fopen($banip, "a"); 
$write = fputs($fp, $ip); 
fclose($fp); 
echo 'Clients IP  Address: ' . $ip; 
?>
</center>

This adds the IP to the file, but it doesn't return to the next line meaning it just stacks one after the other.


Also, if there is a way to do the same thing with HTML that would be awesome. I don't think I need it, but it'd be cool to have. I only need this code in the sandtrap folder so it's not going to be viewed or anything. Just be cool if it were available.

[turtle]

PHP Code:

<center>
<?php 
if ( isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] . " \n"; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] . " \n"; 
} else if ( isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"]) )    { 
$ip=$_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] . " \n"; 
} 
$banip = '/home/turtle24/public_html/ban-ip/ban-ip.txt'; 
$fp = fopen($banip, "a"); 
$write = fputs($fp, $ip); 
fclose($fp); 
echo 'Your IP Address: ' . $ip; 
?>
</center>

Got the writing of the ban-ip.txt working right. Now I just need to get .htaccess to read and use the file properly. So who here knows .htaccess really well? As best I understand it should be something with this part of the file:

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ban-ip\.txt ban<Files ~ "^.*$">order allow,denyallow from alldeny from env=ban</Files>

Also, all files are in or in subfolders of the public_html. .htaccess resides in the public_html directly. ban-ip and sandtrap folders a child folders of public_html.