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Jun 9, 2007, 6:33 AM

balita

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Jun 9, 2007, 6:33 AM

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Can something be done to block this tye of access?

Daily two or three times a day I am seeing this type of entry in the site logs - I have turned of the member list but still there is an entry for every member. The IP addresses are always something different and usually in Russia or Eastern Europe.

Is there anything I can do or should I just ignore.

To me the worrying fact is the actual URL is wrong but the names of the members are always correct making me think they have access to the users list.

Many thanks

- Wayne -

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Sat Jun 09 10:59:06 2007] [error] [client 91.124.4.191] /www/forum/gforum.cgi, referer: http://forum.domain.ph/gforum.cgi?forum=10;guest=266200 
[Sat Jun 09 10:59:06 2007] [error] [client 91.124.4.191]/www/forum/gforum.cgi, referer: http://forum.domain.ph/gforum.cgi?username=ajoeylopez_28;guest=266200 
[Sat Jun 09 10:59:07 2007] [error] [client 91.124.4.191] /www/forum/gforum.cgi, referer: http://forum.domain.ph/gforum.cgi?post=51;guest=266200 
[Sat Jun 09 10:59:10 2007] [error] [client 91.124.4.191]/www/forum/gforum.cgi, referer: http://forum.domain.ph/gforum.cgi?forum=11;guest=266200

Jun 10, 2007, 3:04 AM

Andy

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Jun 10, 2007, 3:04 AM

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Jun 10, 2007, 4:19 AM

balita

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Jun 10, 2007, 4:19 AM

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Re: [balita] Can something be done to block this tye of access? In reply to

Andy

Read what you said before it was deleted - is there a simple way I can block it.

- Wayne -

Jun 11, 2007, 1:17 AM

Andy

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Jun 11, 2007, 1:17 AM

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Re: [balita] Can something be done to block this tye of access? In reply to

Hi,

I didn't realise you said you had turned the "Member List" off =) (so my post was pretty invalid).

From what I understand of your problem now, you could stop them by adding in a .htaccess file (or just adding to your existing on). The below code should redirect pages being requested from that "weird" URL, to restricted_url.html (obviously you will need to setup this page, with a nice "message" for them to see :P)

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RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://forum.domain.ph 
RewriteRule /* http://www.yoursite.com/restricted_url.html [R,L]

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk