banning IP's

[Pooh]

I need to ban someone.  How do i obtain their IP so they can't just make a new user name?

[OmegaGOD]

I would check your webserver's access log. :-)

[Pooh]

Where is that file usually located?

[Joachim Müller]

if you don't know, you probably don't have access to it. You can see the IP address of posters of comments on coppermine pages.
I wouldn't worry too much, since most users have IP addresses dynamically assigned. If you ban them by IP address, the ban will only last for a short time, since right after the next login into the internet the banned user will be assigned a new IP address, and your ban will work for nobody, or even someone who gets assigned the IP# next who hasn't done anything wrong. In short terms: forget about banning.

Joachim

[Pooh]

if you don't know, you probably don't have access to it. You can see the IP address of posters of comments on coppermine pages.
I wouldn't worry too much, since most users have IP addresses dynamically assigned. If you ban them by IP address, the ban will only last for a short time, since right after the next login into the internet the banned user will be assigned a new IP address, and your ban will work for nobody, or even someone who gets assigned the IP# next who hasn't done anything wrong. In short terms: forget about banning.

Joachim

Uh well to tell you the truth, most users are not on dial up...
and it would only make sense that the file they uploads was large enough to conclude they have an assigned IP (cable or dsl).

And is there a mod where I can view uploader's IP address?
I just installed coppermine... that's why i wouldn't know where the log file is.  You can still tell me where it WOULD me

[Joachim Müller]

the log is where the server admin has decided it should go to, can't say the location in general. DSL users have dynamic IP addresses as well.

Joachim

[lamama]

Uh well to tell you the truth, most users are not on dial up...
and it would only make sense that the file they uploads was large enough to conclude they have an assigned IP (cable or dsl).

Even on DSL users will often have dynamic IP adresses. But I had the case of someone trying to mirror my gallery from another webserver using wget, so in that case a IP block will surely be helpfull.

I just installed coppermine... that's why i wouldn't know where the log file is.  You can still tell me where it WOULD me

Do you own your own webserver or do you just have some webspace?

Use the FTP programm you used to upload coppermine to your webspace. Look through all folders you can access via ftp. Keep eyes open to some folder like "log" or "logs". Inside you will hopefully find files ending on _log or something like that, often as .gz files (packed). Download some of the latest logfiles, unpack them and try to find out the IP.

I don´t know how coppermine bans, but maybe banning with .htaccess is more effective.

[Joachim Müller]

I don´t know how coppermine bans, but maybe banning with .htaccess is more effective.

Certainly yes, leeching protection must be done by .htaccess means.

Joachim