"Pages" tab blocking everyone

Hi,

Before you can block individual pages you need to select: “Do you want to block individual pages” option.

Once that option is selected the frontend banlist/blacklist is used to applied on the selected pages.

If that option is not selected the frontend banlist/blacklist is applied on all pages.

Hi,

Yes, I selected “Do you want to block individual pages” and then selected the page I wished to block. When I then personally try to access that page I receive the default error message, “Connection failed. Please try again later “.

I am not blocking my own country, the U.S.A. nor am I blocking my own IP address.

I am not normally blocked from my site. It is only when I turn this option on that I am blocked from the selected page.

Thank you for your reply!

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Additional information.

One by one I removed all of the countries that were blocked from the frontend. Finally I was left with an empty box. When I tried to access the selected page I was still blocked.

If I turn OFF “block users from the front end” I can access that page.

If I turn ON “block users from the front end” I am blocked, even though no countries are selected to block.

So what seems to be happening is that if I decide to block a page instead of the whole site, I am automatically blocked from accessing that page. Even though my country is not being listed as blocked.

Could it be that my IP Address is somehow being blocked since it is displayed in the Administration panel?

Thanks again!

Hmmm. I’ll try to reproduce this on my development environment and I’ll get back to you.

I’ve tested the following situations:

Block users from visiting the frontend of your website set to off and block individual pages to on -> I could visit all pages.

Block users from visiting the frontend of your website set to on and block individual pages to on and did not block my own country or IP address -> I could visit all pages.

Block users from visiting the frontend of your website set to on and block individual pages to on and blocked my own country -> I could visit all pages that were not blocked and not those who were blocked.

Block users from visiting the frontend of your website set to on and block individual pages to on and blocked my own IP -> I could visit all pages that were not blocked and not those who were blocked.

Block users from visiting the frontend of your website set to on and block individual pages to on -> I could not visit any page.

So I cannot reproduce ??

Did you change the message to “Connection failed. Please try again later” as this is not the default message.

Thank you for checking. I am using version 1.1.2. The default message to display when people are blocked is “Connection Failed. Please try again later.”. I have no memory of ever having changed it, though that’s not to say I didn’t. ??

I will try erasing the plugin and installing it from scratch. I’ll also check to see if there is a conflict with another plugin. As no one else has reported this, and as it works on your end, it must be something with my setup.

Thank you for checking!

Connection Failed. Please try again later is definitely not the default message. So if you have not changed the default message to this something else might be up.

Hi,

Still no luck. I am running WordPress 3.8 and Atahualpa 3.7.13.

I deleted IQ from the WP>Dashboard>Plugins page. I then downloaded and reinstalled it.

I then disabled all of my other plugins.

I went to the IQ “Home” tab and selected “Block users from visiting the front end of your site”. I entered Germany and left the “send headers” option selected.

I went to the “Pages” tab and selected “Do you want to block individual pages”. I then selected the page I wanted to block and Saved the settings.

Later on when I checked the “Logging” tab I found that everyone who tried to visit the selected page had been blocked, not just Germany. Some of the countries which were blocked included China, Poland and the United States. Googlebot, which usually does not show up as a regular “hit” had also been blocked.

Blocking the site completely from blocked countries works perfectly. It’s as if turning the “page block” option on automatically blocks anyone who tries to visit that page.

Will have to think about this one…

Thanks again for posting!

Hi,

I think I’ve found something that causes your behaviour.

In the current development version available on the wordpress site is a possible fix.

I have done a light test run but will have to do a more intensive run tommorow. If the tests turn out okay I can release a new version.

Thanks for reporting. Sorry it took a while before I could reproduce it.

Hi,

Should be fixed in v1.1.3

Hi,

It’s working perfectly for me now. Thank You!

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Great! Thanks again for reporting ??

Hi,

I just installed your plugin to block access to the login/register page of my site from the US/China/Brazil (places we get various login attempts).
I’m having the exact same problem as described above, while using v1.1.3 (just installed it today via the wordpress plugin installer).

If I enable “Block users from visiting the frontend of your website:”, then every user from the blocked country list gets blocked from the whole page. Not only the pages on the Pages-Tab.
I also have the ” Do you want to block individual pages: If you do not select this option all pages will be blocked.” enabled.

Hi Mischi,

The wp-login.php URL is considered as backend URL as this is also used to login to the backend. It is considered this way because most ‘bad guys’ have scripts that hit the wp-login.php with a number of logins and passwords. So to protect the backend it is locked.

Perhaps this clarifies (a part) of your problem.