Can I Ban People

Coding Help
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I wanna ban people from actually VIEWING the site
EX: something.glitch.me

23

Well you can do it in PHP, NodeJS. Which language do you want to do the ban in, because you can’t do it in client-side JS.

24

PHP Please (more text

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<?php
$ip = explode(",", $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']);
$deny = array("111.111.111", "1.2.3.4");
if(in_array($ip[0],$deny))
{
  header("location: http://www.example.com/");
  exit;
}
?>

(replacing the dummy IPs with the IPs of the people you want to ban)

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OK so I just make a .php file and put that in it

27

You have to install PHP on your project too. There are two ways to do it:

  • Just install PHP

  • Use Apache (this gives you more options)

28

Which one would you like?

29

Yes and no.
You can ban by IP but they can use a VPN. So you’ll have to use a VPN blocker, which will lower traffic to your site as many people do use VPN’s.

30

I belive that @Fionn already brought this up. The other way to do this would be to do a browser fingerprint ban, but I’m not sure if that is possible and if it is, it is likely very difficult.

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31

I personally doubt that a browser fingerprint ban would work with glitch.

32

The IP ban will also only work on the *.glitch.me domain because of the reverse proxy used for custom domains.

33

So, to simplify it; You can ban people from your site but most methods can be bypassed.

34

Or will not work.

35

Exactly. (more text)

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36

@RiversideRocks I would just like to install php

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Add this to your glitch.json file.

{
  "install": "echo 'We Are Ready!'",
  "start": "php -S 0.0.0.0:3000 -t ."
}
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is that it @RiversideRocks

39

Yes, that should work.

40

ok (more textTHIS IS VERY ANNOYING ()).

41

Is this for Kidz? Like - we talked earlier?