eMember – block registration by ip address

[sarnorealroi]

how can we prevent fraudulent re-registration for free trial? Do we have to create code to store IP adress of trial users and write our own registration from and use the api to add user to emember?

[admin]

You should be able to use eMember’s IP blacklist option for this. Go to WP eMember -> Members -> Manage Blacklist then specify the IP addresses that you don’t want to allow registration from.

This will make it to where no one will be able to register from those specified IP addresses.

[lekiend]

Is it possible to block an ip range ?

All ip starting with 58.22.*.* by example ?

Thank you

[Peter]

Hi,

No I don’t think wild card functionality is possible with the IP address blacklist.

However you can block IP address ranges from the .htaccess file – but you really need to be careful and know what you’re doing:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6335745/block-range-of-ips

[admin]

We added an option in the plugin so if you enter the following in the IP Address blacklist, it will block all IP addresses that contain “125.90.21” in it:

125.90.21

[lekiend]

Hi,

Thank you.

You says contains. Does that mean if 125.90.21 is in the end (*.125.90.21) will also be blocked ?

It should only block starting adresses with 125.90.21 and not others.

Best regards,

Dimitri

[admin]

Hi Dimitri, Yes you are correct. We will make this change in our next build of eMember.

[Author]

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