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@@Dan Cole LOL

... however someone had to take that first step.

Which is sad, but has been the history of osC over the years. which is why some people started thier own fork some time ago that resulted in all the 'fuss'. If it were not for Gary (Burt) this project would be dead and that is a greater shame

If the page is blank its pretty likely your host has supressed errors. See if you have an error log text file which will give you a heads up on what the errror could be. Nic

Pretty underhanded of them

I dont see a difference in the two URL's

good avice.

Hello Sorry for the wait i've been busy. You paste the sections you want to use in your own HTACCESS file. Rgds Nic

HI Michael Try disable the osc_sec from working and try again, i think it might be this causing the blank screen. Once disabled you should see the blocked.php again, please let me know if that works otherwise i would need to have a peek Regards Nic

Hi Iyang 1) call the IP_Trapped.txt in your browser you should get a 403 message. www.yoursite.com/banned/IP_Trapped.txt 2) you can do that, you can have one called admin and one called personal, you are not limited to just the one folder, just a bit pointless; if you change the folder to admin then remove the line in the robots text for Disallow: /personal/ no-one is going to look for the folder. Regards Nic

Hello, Add your IP number manually to the banned/IP_Trapped.txt and see if you are them able to get the index.php, or contact_us etc.. pages. Suspect that as you said the IP's are not being added to the list that there is a problem with permissions still. Have you checked your error logs for any permissions errors, though these would normally display at the time. Nic

Good Morning First off have you made sure that you have added the application_top.php code just after the filemanager.php include? IP Trap is not and was never intended to block anything but an explicit call to the personal folder, once trapped it will ban the user form the site until it is sprung then it does no other type of protection, for this I would suggest security pro, and sec_osC from the add on's area as proactive defence is their function, IP Trap is more reactive. The htacess code can go anywhere within the htaccess file, the “ should not be there please remove prior to adding, the code incidentally prevents anyone from calling the text files in their browser and viewing the contents. Please get back if the trap still refuses to work. Rgds Nic

Hi Mike, There are many different add ons for security out there, but i would say Security Pro osC_Sec Nic

Hi Mike I just tested it and got banned and remiand banned. If you have a rapidly changing IP number then it will give the apearance of not working as the IP you got banned with has changed. As for your question about 777, it is not safe to run with permissions so high and you are running the very real risk of being hacked once again. For folders you should be looking at a max of 755 and files 644 (unless they need to be read / write, in this case 666) 777 will get you hacked again and its not a matter of if but when Nic

Hi Mike, After making sure it is installed corectly, try removing the IP numbers in the whitelist - see if that cures it Nic