Randem Systems Support Board

BotBanish is a client/server application and will check regularly with the BotBanish server for information regarding a bot attack and any maintenance that will need to be done to keep the system is a high state of readiness. BotBanish will work in conjunction with other bot protectors but is your first line of defense to help aid in the reduction of bot traffic and access to your forum. BotBanish Requires PHP, mySQL & Apache for any general website and the installation process is as follows:

• Check to see if PHP Version 8.3.x is installed (minimum PHP version 7.1.x) with mySQL version 8.0.x.
  
  
• Create a mySQL database on your host with a database collation of utf8mb4_unicode_ci. The BotBanish installation will create all the tables that it needs in the database prefixed with bbc_botbanishclient_ and botbanish_.
  
  
• Upload the BotBanish folder to your root folder location.
  
  
• In your browser type https://your_domain.com/BotBanish/bot/Client/Install/install.php to start the installation of BotBanish.
  
  
• Run the "Pre-Check" procedure to make sure that everything that is needed is installed.
  
  
• BotBanish will create the needed tables then attempt to import from your root .htaccess file into the BotBanish ip table any IP firewall rules that are present for future use.
  
  
• BotBanish is now protecting you from bots, spiders and user attacks. Each time someone or something is accessing your site BotBanish is checking them out and monitoring them for suspicious behavior.
  
  

To access BotBanish Analytics; in the URL type https://your_domain.com/BotBanish/bot/Analytics/BotBanishAnalytics.php.

• In your browser type https://YOURDOMAIN/BotBanish/bot/Client/Install/uninstall.php to uninstall BotBanish.
  

Download the latest version at https://botbanish.com