Hello I installed a fresh smf forum, first thing I did was install botbanish, I am having the error 500 and it has happen so far 3 times, it block all the domain and subdomains not just the forum, this is what I am using:
SMF 2.1 RC2
BotBanish 3.4.02 downloaded from this site, also I got a warning from sfm that there was and update on hxxp:botbanish.com/ [nonactive] but I got the same files I dunno if there are changes (also at the time I am posting this, that site is also giving me the error 500)
Apache Version 2.4.41
PHP Version 7.2.24
MySQL Version 5.6.45
OS Linux
first time I deleted everything (even smf) since I did not know what was the problem and after re installation I used the files from botbanish.com so I am sure I have the official and last version. For the second time is when I noticed this error happens when botbanish stops a force brute attack and then edits my htaccess file to block and IP this is the report from SMF error log:
Type of error: botbanish
BotBanishClient: A Brute Force Registration Attack Attempt Stopped - mysite.com
A BOT/USER is attacking the system. It has been terminated
IP Address: 158.69.121.179
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.170 Safari/537.36 OPR/53.0.2907.106
BotBanish Client 3.4.01 (SMF) https://mysite.com/forum/index.php?action=login2
Noticed that SMF error report says that the version is 3.4.01 but as I said I installed the very last one and I repeat is a fresh forum I did not have previous installations, and to be able to unblock my site I edited htaccess and deleted this lines so the site works again :
# * * * * * BotBanish IP Start * * * * *
<Files>
<RequireAll>
Require all granted
Require not ip 158.69.121.179
</RequireAll>
</Files>
# * * * * * BotBanish IP End * * * * *
But this solution I think is not the appropriate one because it happened again when I got another bot attack hours later, SMF reported the same error just with a different IP address.
Also I have another error that SMF log report but I am not sure if they are related:
Type of error: General
8192: Function create_function() is deprecated https://mysite.com/forum/index.php?action=botbanish;area=viewblacklistips
/home/mysite/public_html/forum/Sources/BotBanish_BlackWhiteLists_Manage.php (Line 692)
I am bit of stuck here, thanks.