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And a bunch of others for good measure.

Also added a Facebook IP range that seems to be misbehaving....

The site has been hit by a lot of traffic from the Amazon 3.0.0.0/8 range. As such, all traffic from that range is being blocked at the firewall.

Indeed you can

Austin90 = Spammer

Austin90 is banned - #spammer

B7 RS4 forum seems to be the one with the most topics and posts but that worked fine...

Shoppinit wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:43 am

Weird.

Also, if I remove any one of the search terms from the URL then the search succeeds, even with &fid%5B%5D=2

That might be because I just fixed it

I fixed it but I'm not sure why it worked everywhere else except the RS6 forum. Anyway, the fix was to increase the PHP timeout from 30 seconds to 60 seconds (Probably not interesting but putting it here in case I need to fix it again someday).

I did some testing yesterday and it seems that the problem is being caused by &fid%5B%5D=2 in the URL. Now I need to figure out why it only seems to affect the RS6 forum.... RS4 forum with more posts works fine https://forum.rs246.com/search.php?keywords=Crank+position+sensor&terms=all&author=&fid%5...

Works for me. What word are you searching for? Can you provide the URL of the page where you get a 500 Error please?

Shoppinit wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 2:13 pm

If I go to viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15229

Then click on any of the links then the site logs me out.

Or rather, it stops using https and I have to either prepend it to the URL manually or log in again, but this is not secure (I noticed too late).

Fixed

I've done pretty much everything I can to try to stop the spam in an automated way but they still get through. I've blocked email domains, I've looked at blocking IP ranges but that wasn't reliable enough, I've deleted hundreds of accounts and added reCaptcha to the registration page. Either it's pr...

chunky79 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:27 pm

Just to add, I think the only problem with charging is the folk who don't have a sense of humour and complain about certain styles of posters. When they pay even £1, they throw the toys out the pram saying "I don't pay to have to read this".

"Refunds are available"