Access Blocker Support Thread

[lat9]

Now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2237

[lat9]

I've just submitted v1.4.0 of Access Blocker for the Zen Cart moderators' review; I'll post back here when it's available for download.

This version adds configuration settings for an IP-address and an email-address whitelist, enabling a site to 'unblock' a customer whose Internet provider has been recorded as a threat by https://ipdata.co.

[lat9]

I've just submitted v1.4.0 of Access Blocker for the Zen Cart moderators' review; I'll post back here when it's available for download.

This version adds configuration settings for an IP-address and an email-address whitelist, enabling a site to 'unblock' a customer whose Internet provider has been recorded as a threat by https://ipdata.co.

Now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2237

[irishshopper]

I have just installed V1.4 and used the API Key but it is not working on www.rmstitanic100.com!!!

I have used the keywords below ion the window but people are still getting through using some of these keywords.

######,mortgage,############,looking for date,
waiting for you,wants to meet you,
looking for meet,wants to date,
wants to chat,wants for meet,chat,
to see you, waiting for you,
have sent you, wants to see,free
traffic,########

[lat9]

I have just installed V1.4 and used the API Key but it is not working on www.rmstitanic100.com!!!

I have used the keywords below ion the window but people are still getting through using some of these keywords.

######,mortgage,############,looking for date,
waiting for you,wants to meet you,
looking for meet,wants to date,
wants to chat,wants for meet,chat,
to see you, waiting for you,
have sent you, wants to see,free
traffic,########

Noting that the API key isn't needed for the keyword-based blocks. Which keywords are being allowed vs. blocked (that's bizarre).

[angst]

Irishshopper
Just spitballing some ideas.
Is it possible the spaces or another character in your keyword blocklist is interfering with it working?

Try making your list just individual words with no spaces after the comma.
Like so

meet,chat,date,mortgage,traffic,free

And of course make sure enable access blocker is set to true.

Since you have set up the ipdata.co key you can go in your site logs and look at what is being blocked by their filter and see if it is working.
The log will be in your sites files somewhere similar to this /public_html/logs/accesses_blocked_2021_08.log

[lat9]

Irishshopper
Just spitballing some ideas.
Is it possible the spaces or another character in your keyword blocklist is interfering with it working?

Try making your list just individual words with no spaces after the comma.
Like so


And of course make sure enable access blocker is set to true.

Since you have set up the ipdata.co key you can go in your site logs and look at what is being blocked by their filter and see if it is working.
The log will be in your sites files somewhere similar to this /public_html/logs/accesses_blocked_2021_08.log

What @angst said!

[angst]

Anyone else find that your logs in your server stopped on 12-31-2021?
I can see in my dashboard at ipdata.co that it is still making blocks daily though.

[lat9]

Anyone else find that your logs in your server stopped on 12-31-2021?
I can see in my dashboard at ipdata.co that it is still making blocks daily though.

I'm seeing logs from January and February. Maybe you've scared them all off.

[Philibel]

FYI for EU-based webshop:

We also offer a dedicated EU endpoint to ensure that the end user data you send us stays in the EU. This has the same functionality as our standard endpoint but routes the request through our EU servers (Paris, Ireland and Frankfurt) only.

find in .../includes/classes/ipData.php on line 24:

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.ipdata.co/" . $ip_address . $api_key); 

and replace by:

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://eu-api.ipdata.co/" . $ip_address . $api_key); 

This way you aren't in violation with EU rules about privacy.