Blocking my own IP doesn't work

  • Resolved cferron

    (@cferron)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve had IQ Block Country installed for a little over 24 hours, with all countries except my own blocked from the backend, and a handful of countries blocked from the frontend. No blocked visits appear in the Logging tab.

    To test if the plugin is working, I tried blocking my own IP from the frontend by adding it to the blacklist, but I can still access the frontend after doing so.

    If blocking my own IP doesn’t work, and the log shows 0 blocked visits, how can I tell if the plugin is working?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/

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  • Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Did you set “Block visitors from visiting the frontend of your website” and unset “Do not block visitors that are logged in from visiting frontend website” ?

    Do you have any other countries blocked?

    Thread Starter cferron

    (@cferron)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the response, Pascal.

    Yes, I set “Block visitors from visiting the frontend of your website” and unset “Do not block visitors that are logged in from visiting frontend website”, and a few countries other than my own are also blocked from the frontend. I setup the test while logged in on Chrome, and then tried visiting from Firefox, which I hadn’t used to log into the backend, but I was still able to see the frontend.

    The site is using W3 Total Cache, so perhaps that plugin is delivering the cached page before iQ can block it? I cleared the cache after making the changes in iQ, but before trying to visit the frontend.

    Now that it’s been a few days, the log shows iQ blocking a few attempted visits to the backend, and a few to the frontend from a couple of the countries I blocked, so it appears to be working some of the time.

    Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    If you use caching the blocking part of the frontend may not work indeed.

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