Blocking users

How do I block a user from my site?

[cooldoug]

How Do I block an annoying user from my site? He keeps using proxies, and getting around it. Can I block his computer name(not ip). He is stealing all my work and uploading it as his.If anyone knows anything that can help me, please do.I am very new at this.
Thanks in advance....Doug. :)

[Orbite]

How do you know it's the same user? What is constant about him?

Also what type of server side technologies do you have at your disposition : Apache, IIS, PHP, ASP, ...?

[cooldoug]

I know its the same person,using the same IP, I use Apache.

[incrediBILL]

If he's using proxies and you block one, he'll just use another.

My favorite methods of blocking them are called DMCA (digital millenium copyright act) and LAYWER .....

[Orbite]

I know its the same person,using the same IP, I use Apache.

Block the IP with a rewrite rules in your .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} "^111.222.333.444$"
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

[httpd.apache.org...]

[cooldoug]

Block the IP with a rewrite rules in your .htaccess file.

Where it says

"^111.222.333.444$"

, Do I replace that with one of his IPs or what? What do I need to replace?:)

[phidentity]

Yeah, replace that number with his IP.

Jon

[Don Markstein]

This looks like it might be the solution to a problem I want to deal with, but since I'm an ignoramus when it comes to this sort of stuff (I'm not a Web technician, but a writer who runs a site using mostly simple HTML that even I can understand, and who greatly appreciates the patience of folks like you) I'm not absolutely sure.

I want to keep an outside site from displaying my pages in its frames. Question 1 is, will adding this code to my .htaccess file accomplish that goal?

Question 2: when phidentity confirmed that this requires replacing that number with his IP, does that mean to include the ^ at the beginning and the $ at the end? In other words, should it be "[HIS IP]" or "^[HIS IP]$"?

Question 3: I already have a .htaccess which, after much frustrating trial and error, I long ago succeeded in tweaking to a point where it blocks image leaching. Will this in any way interfere with that?

Question 4: There's some duplicate code between the two functions (notably the first two lines). Just leave that off, right?

Question 5: Adding another RewriteCond and RewriteRule won't negate the ones I have, will it? Or was that Question 3?

Five lines of code, five questions. I guess that's pretty indicative of the depth of my cluelessness, and again, I truly do appreciate the patience of knowledgeable people like you.

-- Don Markstein
Butt-ignorant webmaster

[cooldoug]

Thanks everyone for your help!