Dreamweaver 8

[ronb]

Someone has hacked into my site and is completing the text boxes used for requesting a price list and brochure with reams of spam, some of which is disgusting, complete with HTML addresses advertising various web sites.

Whilst I am able to delete these requests when I receive them, is there anyway I can stop this guy/woman from piggy backing my site please.

I have tried to find a way of limiting the number of characters in each text box i.e max characters, but I cannot find a way of doing so.

Any advice would be most welcomed.

[Daniel]

Block their IP address.

[ronb]

Hi Daniel,

How would I do that please?

[Daniel]

.htaccess - bans them from the enite site

[ronb]

Daniel,

sorry to be a pain but would you be kind enough to explain in more detail. I am not an experienced computer user so need a bit of help with this one.

Can you tell me please exactly how I could ban this guy/girl from interfering with my site, is it something I have to add to the Dreamweaver file or is there another way of doing it please?

[Daniel]

Its through a file called htaccess in your server - do you have one?

[Marc]

Have a look here, ron: http://www.depiction.net/tutorials/h.../ipbanning.php.

You will also need a server that allows .htaccess.

Hope that helps.

[Daniel]

in your .htaccess file ban the ip address like so:

Code: Select all

order allow,deny
deny from xxx.xx.x.x
deny from xxx.xx.x.x
deny from xxx.xx.x.x
allow from all

[ronb]

OK, thanks for that all I have to find now is that code.

Thanks again for all your hellp. Dinner is ready so I will have a go before the rugby starts!!

[ronb]

Hi,

OK thanks for that,I will contact my ISP on Monday to see if they can do anything about it but is there anything I can do to make it hard for this person to carry on what he is doing if my ISP can't, make the request form more difficult for him to use perhaps??

[Marc]

Have you got validation like Capatcha on your form? This could deter if it is a robot...

[ronb]

Marc,

I have got most of my pages xhmtl validated but neveer heard of Capatcha, how does one achieve that please??

[Marc]

This is what captcha is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha.

This is how you could achieve captcha: http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.u...-captcha.php.#

Hope this helps!

PS - Captcha is just image verication.

[Daniel]

use .htaccess to block the ip address and captcha for when they access the site.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Daniel

use .htaccess to block the ip address and captcha for when they access the site.

If you block thier IP address they wont be able to see the site anyway, Dan.

[Daniel]

Thats the idea

[Marc]

Ron, do you know this person/robots IP address? If you do, i suggest you use Dan's method.

[alexgeek]

Just want to add,
this is not a fool-proof method.
A lot of ISPs assign IPs dynamicaly, so someone could 34.23.76.75 one day and a completely different IP the next.
Also people can use proxies to bypass this.

[ronb]

Hi Marc,

Unfortunately I know nothing about this guy except that he is a damned nuisance!! I have been trying to H3C validate my www.classicboats.co.uk/page8a.html but cant make head nor tale of the instructions I am given, aparently there are 14 errors on there!!

I have just signed up for Catchpa and will install and give that a try. Trouble is, when you are 75 and not just so bright as you used to be, it's like wading through porridge.

If you have 5 mins to spare and one or two wee halfs beside you, could you have a look at the above mentioned page and tell me where I have gone wrong?

[ronb]

OK Alex, thanks for that but I feel that anything is worth a try. If I could just get my hands around his neck!!