Banning someone's IP Address from my Site

Some ass is mass-downloading all my content over and over and over and i finally realized it after he has eat 500gb of my bandwidth. I have read online and have got it to ban him, but i want a custom error message to come up.

The code i have so far:

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 123.456.789.0
deny from 123.4.5.
</Limit>

PHP:

I have then tried adding...

ErrorDocument 403 /403.htm to load a custom error page for people whoa re banned but it not working..

 

Bear in mind that I haven't had the need to ban anyone since selling my last membership site, however, if I recall correctly, this is what worked for me....

###start Ban
order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0.0
allow from all
###end Ban
###start custom redirect for errors
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
###end custom redirect for errors

Of course, you'll have to create a custom 403.html page and install it in the same directory but it should do the trick.

 

When testing with my own ip im getting:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

try this custom error page:
http://tips-scripts.com/?tip=not_found#tip

 

Still getting

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /404.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Maybe i need to add an Allow all to the file 404.php?, 403.php? Maybe it banning the person from even reading that

 

did you add this:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Code (markup):

to your .htaccess?

 

Hmmmm....that'll teach me not to play with it on my server before responding. Let me see if I can figure out what's wrong with mine.

Sorry about that.

 

Yes...


I found the problem... If you ban someone they cant even access the error file... however you can make it so it loads the 404.php in a different server or you can do:

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 1.1.1.1
<Files banned.php>
allow from 1.1.1.1
</Files>

ErrorDocument 403 /banned.php

=D

time to go study for my Exam.. Thanks guys... BTW Rep point for you! I like the PHP error one as it notifies me via email when people access my error page! =D

 

thank you, still haven't figured out the rep points.