Hi,
Sorry you’re having trouble with the plugin.
Have you tested this on another website on the same server?
There may be a conflict with another script which uses htaccess.
Try setting the file permissions for htaccess to 0644 instead of removing the Visitor Maps Extended code.
Heh, it’s working and I dont even know what I did. Very strange.
Anyway, thanks for your reply. Great plugin.
ok, weird. The plugin seems to be working. I can ban an IP or site without the site going down and the banned IPs are logged and remain there. All good. The thing is, wanted to have a look at the .htaccess file again, but can’t find the entries!
It should be the .htaccess file under the root directory of the site, right? Or is it somewhere else?
I just did a test from my work PC. I banned the IP, but I can still access. Any idea?
If the IP isn’t added to htaccess, it won’t be blocked. Reinstall the plugin. We need to figure out why your server returns an error.
Ok, please ignore my last few comments. I retardedly did a chown instead of a chmod when trying to apply 0644 to .htaccess which is why nothing was writing to it. I have now fixed the permissions and Im back to the original problem. .htaccess is being edited, but my site goes down.
I noticed this in the comments in the Visitor Maps Extended section of .htacces:
Uncomment 'Options +FollowSymlinks' if your server returns a
'500 Internal Server' error.
I tried to uncomment that option, but it didnt do anything.
Any other suggestiongs?
btw, my httpd.conf has FollowSymlinks configured:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>
Sorry for all the posts. Im just posting as I find something.
It looks like referer bans are working. The error happens with the IP ban.
Here is what it looks like normally, which takes the site down:
# BEGIN banned ips
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 46.118.119.252
allow from all
</Limit>
# END banned ips
The server will only come back if I comment out everything within the Limit code:
# BEGIN banned ips
<Limit GET POST>
#order allow,deny
#deny from 46.118.119.252
#allow from all
</Limit>
# END banned ips
All 3 need to be commented out for the site to come back.
If I use the last config above (commenting out the 3 lines within Limit) to make the site work and I then uncomment “Options +FollowSymlinks”, the site goes down again.
Have you tested this plugin on a clean WordPress install on the same server?
I don’t know what the rest of your htaccess file looks like, so I can’t say if there are other plugins or scripts conflicting with this one.
‘Options +FollowSymlinks’ would be for mod_rewrite and not for ip banning.
Try removing all of the banned ips code except the following line –
deny from 46.118.119.252
chmod to 0755.
Check your error logs for specific error messages.
Let me know how it goes.
The .htaccess file that is being edited is at the root of the site in question. eg: /var/www/sitename/.htaccess.
The other two sites I have running on the same server are not impacted by this. Ill try installing at testing on one of the other sites a bit later when I have some time.
Here’s the beginning of my .htaccess. After this, Visitor Maps Extended starts and there is nothing else:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I chmod’d to 0755. No change
I removed all banned IPs code except for one of the IPs. No change.
Be sure to end the WordPress rules.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Please post the message you receive from your error log.
Found it! Good call on the httpd error logs (should have gone there first). Saw this:
.htaccess: DirectoryIndex not allowed here
which led me here:
http://drupal.org/node/10133
And I added a <Directory> in my httpd.conf for my site and changed:
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All
Et Voila! Working!
I should have asked you to check your error logs first, but I didn’t think of it until later. Thanks for posting your solution.
