Only banned from my own house

New Member Joined: Jun 15, 2007 Posts: 18

I have just recently started getting the "Your attention please" invalid IP error. I was not having any problems and it just started today. I did some searching, but only found one for other users. This only happens from inside my own network. I get the IP Client: None and I am behind a router. But I was not having this problem before. Could it be because I am trying to setup the .htaccess stuff?

Regular Joined: Oct 11, 2005 Posts: 65

Sure it could. If you do it incorrectly you could ban yourself.

Did you use RavenNuke's HowToInstall instructions? They're very clear about setting .htaccess up. Just point your browser to:

http://yoursite.com/HowToInstall/ and follow the step by step directions.

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:28 pm

I walked through the setup exactly as it is in there. Even when I turn off Admin Auth, it still will not let me access it from my home PC's. So much fun, so little time to fit it all in.

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:15 pm

Try this .... look at your .htaccess file and see if, near the bottom, your ip address is showing up as banned. If not, go into the tables for the database (phpmyadmin to mysql most often) and look at the banned IP addresses and see if yours is one of them. If it is you could delete that record in the tables.

registered · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:47 pm

Are you getting Invalid IP address or Invalid Client? The Invalid IP one is easy to deal with if you turn off that check in rnconfig.php

$bypassNukeSentinelInvalidIPCheck = true;

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:39 pm

Ok, it says to only use when testing locally, not in a production environment. I am in both. is it bad to turn it off?

registered · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:49 pm

You may need to the latest IP2Country data as well

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:55 pm

i just installed 2.0.10. where would i get more updated ip2country? i dont have the cities in there tho, cause of a problem i had when doing the database.

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:30 pm

quazyguy wrote:

Ok, it says to only use when testing locally, not in a production environment. I am in both. is it bad to turn it off?

Please search for this variable in the forums to get some opinions / see old discussions about this issue. I run a production site with it turned off because it produces too many false positives in my experience.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:55 pm

quazy, are you saying that your production site is on your local machine, meaning its hosted on your network?

If that is the case, then it will ALWAYS return an invalid ip unless you turn the check off, which will allow unwanted guests to intrude.

Please verify, because if this is the case, I will create a workaround for you, Just need to be sure that is the case, thanks.