It blocked me too

  • Resolved hartmutnz

    (@hartmutnz)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    I set up the settings to whitelist my IP. Thats all I did. Saved the page.
    Now, it should block all other countries, right? It does. But it also seems to block me.. I got back in after disbling it in FTP. checked the settings.. all ok. But, still blocks me once the plugin is activated again.. Any solutions?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ip-geo-block/

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  • Plugin Author tokkonopapa

    (@tokkonopapa)

    Hi hartmutnz,

    Sorry about your trouble but I’m not sure what your situation is. So I’d like to confirm your settings precisely.

    Q1:
    For example, I assume that both you and your server are in US (just as an example). In this case, the “Matching rule” is set as “Whitelist“, and the “Country code for matching rule” is set as “US“. Am I right?

    c.f. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ip-geo-block/screenshots/

    Q2:
    > I set up the settings to whitelist my IP.

    Do you mean you put your IP address into “Whitelist of extra IP addresses prior to country code“? I think you don’t have to set it if your IP belongs to US.

    Or do you mean you put your IP address which is not in US?

    > Now, it should block all other countries, right?

    Yes you’re right!

    Q3:
    When you configure so as to block yourself (either by country code or IP address), this plugin shows a warning message as follows while you’re logged in as an admin. Didn’t you see it?

    Once you logout, you will be unable to login again because your country code or IP address is in the blacklist.

    or

    Once you logout, you will be unable to login again because your country code or IP address is not in the whitelist.

    Q4:
    In “Logs” tab, you can find the list of blocked accesses. Could you find yourself in the list somewhere in “Login form” or “Admin area“? If you find it, please let me know the column of the “Result“.

    And I appreciate if you send me a screenshot of your settings page to tokkonopapa at yahoo.com

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter hartmutnz

    (@hartmutnz)

    Thank you very much, tokkonopapa ! That clarifies it. I did adjust the settings and it does work! Thanks. AND, it now seems to have stopped all login attempts from around the globe. I had 50 attempts a day before! Now NONE. Thanks for your plugin. Groggo

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