My site's banning people coming from a search engine

New Member Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 7

I have a site that hosts custom maps for Call of Duty and lots of my hits come from search engines but I seem to be banning them when they click on the link which is below:
[ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]"Downloads"
or [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]"Downloads\"

This isn't good for the purpose of the site, LOL. Is there anything I can do to let them through?

Thanks in advance.
JB

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:19 am

JBR, why are these links having the quotes (") in them? That does not make sense. Looks to me to be a bug in your particular Downloads module or some other link that the SE's have picked up on?

You need to find where this link is being generated and get it fixed ASAP! It should just be:
[ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:33 pm

Hmm, I have no idea where that link is coming from. I've scanned a few pages looking for it but it makes no sense to me.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:31 am

It has to have been somewhere. I don't know what else to tell you.

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:25 am

Actually I think it had something to do with me forgetting to have the downloads mod set for registered users only. Duh, when I finally fixed that whoops the blocked IPs for the downloads section stopped.

Is there a quick way for me to reset all the blocked IPs?

Can I just clear the database table and the .htaccess file?
Anything else to clear?

Thanks

JB

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:54 am

Actually, its even easier than that. You just go into NukeSentinel's "Blocked IPs" menu and click on "Clear All Blocked IPs". Done. I actually do this periodically anyways... I get lonely when I don't see all those blocker emails... ROTFL

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:22 pm

LOL,

thanks