Can I Ban People

Coding Help
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Is it possible to ban people from visiting your glitch site

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It depends on what you mean by ban and what language you are using.

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HTML and JS. (more text for discourse

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What kind of JavaScript? (node, react, etc.)

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Just regular JS (more text

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What kind of ban do you want?

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What do you mean? by that

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Well there are different types of bans. Ban is a broad category.

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I just want it if ban someone it just redirects some where else

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Like an IP ban?

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Yes (More text for no reason)

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If you plan to run an IP ban in vanilla JS I highly recommend you do not do that. Viewers can see IPs in the source.

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Then what do you recremond

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IP bans can really only be done in a backend language or a config file like .htaccess

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Enforcing an IP ban isn’t fully possible either, because anyone can use a VPN.

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But you can’t do .htaccess in glitch

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There are not many other effective ways to ban :wink:

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If you use lamp-poc (the apache server in glitch) you can.

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So I can’t ban people from my site in glitch.com

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I’m just a bit confused at what you are asking.
Do you want to ban people from viewing:
your-project.glitch.me or
glitch.com/~your-project

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

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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.

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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

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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)

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Which one would you like?

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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.

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

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

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

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Or will not work.

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Exactly. (more text)

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@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

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Yes, that should work.

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ok (more textTHIS IS VERY ANNOYING ()).

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Is this for Kidz? Like - we talked earlier?

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nope more text!!!

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