Banishment definitions

In the General Management page, clicking this icone    will allow you to specify banishment criterias.

You can:

• Add a banishment definition
• Modify a banishment definition
• Deactivate a banishment definition
• Delete a banishment definition
• Choose a rejection criteria
• Choose actions to be taken on a rejection

Choosing rejection criterias:

• IP adress
• pseudo
• emaill
• hosts
  • you can enter several hosts in the input field, separated by commas without spaces
  •  you can also enter the 8 letters at the beginning of the host like this fwdproxy-,amontpellier-,unn-,ec2-,ecs-,vps-,amarseille-
• paths
  • Contains the name of the script being executed ex: forum.php
  • but attacks are made by replacing with it, separated by commas without spaces ex: wp-include,wp-login,wp-admin,wp-content
• agent
• words forbidden
  • after the ? ex: ?lng=en&prt=2
  • example separated by commas without spaces:
            alert,wp-include,wp-login,wp-admin,wp-content

Choosing rejection actions:

• text of the rejection message by default you leave error 403
• rewriting Url which the unwanted visitor will be sent to. You will leave error403.php

Note : You may use all or some of denying criterias as well as the actions to be taken on them.

Finding out logging in intruder's criterias?

• You will find these criterias in the supervision emails sent by your website when you have activated the service and chosen the supervision options.
• You will also find all or some of this information in the log

Note 2 :  administrators et webmasters are strongly advised to receive this supervision which let them know everything that goes on their site and take any advisable steps as soon as possible.

Role and methodology of banishing:

• Banishing is the strongest action that can be taken against an intruder. It aims at denying access to the site contrary to blacklisting which aims at preventing posting on the site .
• Beware to use this function carefully and wisely. Mind not to block all users of a domain by mistake or all those who use such or such browser. E.g. Don't block you own IP address!
   

You provide us with predefined definitions that block spams.

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