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I own a chat room and bulletin board (separate url's). My chat room is eshare expressions 4.3 and is capable of banning members by IP address.
However, my chat links from my homepage. Located within the homepages are pic galleries of our users.
One of my users lodged complaint regarding stalking by another member. My investigatoin supported her claims and the gentleman was banned from chat and forums.
However, he has since acquainted my site's homepage, lifted hers (and several others) photo's from the galleries and placed those photos at various porn sites throughout the net.
Following placement of those photos he contacted this womans place of employment noting her photo having been discovered on an x-rated porn site. Subsequently she was terminated from her job, noting violation of a morality clause.
I have installed a R-click disable on the photos in the gallery (knowing it will not completely remove the offenders ability to copy them) however I would like to completely prevent or redirect this mans access to the entire domain.
His IP is static so shouldn't be a problem with proxied IP or dial up changes.
Can someone here offer me some advice on how to either completely ban his IP from my homepages or redirect his IP?
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How you do this depends on the server your site is hosted on. The methods for Apache and IIS, for example, are completely different. Stating your server type may get you a focused answer.
HTH,
Jim
Assuming you mean Apache server, you can use mod_access [httpd.apache.org] or mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org] to block by IP address or IP address range.
Jim
