Hi dawyatt,

A couple possibilities - first off, do you have access to your Apache error logs? It should have more detailed error information. Also, would it be possible to deactivate/reactivate another module to ensure your managemodules.php file is working correctly? I just want to rule out the possibility that all modules are affected by this problem.

When you uploaded the module did you use the BINARY mode on your FTP program? Alternately, you may rename the .PHP files to .BIN, upload them, and rename them back to .PHP.

Thanks,
Civ

error log text
 

here is the error log text:
[Wed Feb 14 17:50:41 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] File does not exist: /home/buckeyec/public_html/500.shtml[Wed Feb 14 17:50:41 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] Premature end of script headers: /home/buckeyec/public_html/administration/managemodules.php[Wed Feb 14 17:50:34 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] File does not exist: /home/buckeyec/public_html/500.shtml[Wed Feb 14 17:50:34 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] Premature end of script headers: /home/buckeyec/public_html/administration/managemodules.php[Wed Feb 14 17:50:19 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] File does not exist: /home/buckeyec/public_html/500.shtml[Wed Feb 14 17:50:19 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] Premature end of script headers: /home/buckeyec/public_html/administration/managemodules.php[Wed Feb 14 17:43:32 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] File does not exist: /home/buckeyec/public_html/500.shtml[Wed Feb 14 17:43:32 2007] [error] [client 72.241.106.162] Premature end of script headers: /home/buckeyec/public_html/administration/managemodules.php_________________________________ _I have not had any other errors with my other modules... use the news module pretty much everyday....Problem started with the installation of this module... I have uploaded in binary (at least I thought).. I will try your renaming as you suggest... dawyatt...

deactivate and reactivate works fine...
 

I just deactivated the ad notification module and reactivated it with no problems..

Let me know if uploading the PHP files again (in binary mode or renamed to .bin) helps. If not, I'll recreate the package and email it to you again (using a different encryption method).

Thanks,
Civ

Okay...
 

CIV,

I uploaded the files as you suggested and that worked!

Thanks... I am looking forward to seeing how this mod works... I can also look forward to spending all the time I spent on deleting scammers on something fun!

dawyatt

Excellent! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the module after you've used it awhile. Have fun scamming the scammers. :D

Thanks,
Civ

I think it's working???
 

CIV,

I think the mod is working since I did not have to delete bogus id's today...which is what I have had to do pretty much everyday prior to the mod install...

Question: how do I know it's working... I thought I was going to receive an email...

Again, it may be working and today was one of those rare days where no one from Nigeria or outside of the US decided to post....

thoughts?

This mod performs two functions now (as of v1.1): it auto-bans anyone from non-whitelisted countries as soon as they register, and it prevents those same individuals from using the contact form on your listings (well actually it redirects the contact emails to you instead of your listing owners, enabling you to track [mis]usage).

So if you're looking to see if unwanted visitors are being banned go to Search Members in your 68C AdminCP, choose Banned Users from the User Group field and click Search. That will show you all of your banned accounts.

If you don't have any in there yet and you want to test it, the easiest way is to remove your own country from the whitelist in our mod's Admin section and then signup yourself (and use the contact form on a listing to test that portion of the mod). Then check via the above method (Search Members) to see if your new test account is banned, and check your admin email account for the contact attempt you made. Also don't forget to put your country back in the whitelist! :)

An update!
 

Just wanted to give kudos to CIV...

Great mod!

I went from spending about an hour each day dealing with unwanted scammers to spending nada, niltch, zeroooooooooooooo time on it!

I HIGHLY recommend this mod to EVERYONE!

dawyatt ;)