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Good, then just delete the .htaccess and clear your browser cache or put ?a (or other characters after ?) after the domain IE. https://music-lofo.de?s

What is your IP address that gets blocked?

Quote from: Randem on January 22, 2026, 10:04:16 AMDelete your .htaccess file and you should be ok. There should also be a backup of the previous .htaccess file if there was one in the same folder.

There is one, but it is empty.
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Delete your .htaccess file and you should be ok. There should also be a backup of the previous .htaccess file if there was one in the same folder.

Curious, what is the browser that you are using and the USER-AGENT?

The only blocks that I see on this site in the last 24 hours are from China, Russia and Singapore.

Now I'm logged in with a VPN, so I can access your site. Otherwise, it immediately goes to google.com.
In Germany, about 50% of people are online via Vodafone. With this bot blocker, many of my users can no longer access my forum.

htaccess

# * * * * * BotBanish RULES Start * * * * *
# DO NOT REMOVE OR CHANGE!!! - MUST BE FIRST IN .htaccess FILE FOR PROTECTION!!!
# Everything between the BotBanish Start and End markers will be removed when the BotBanish is uninstalled

Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(loopback|127\.0\.0\.1).* [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(md5|benchmark|union|insert|drop|alter).* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://music-lofo.de/BotBanish/bot/Subs/BotBanish_AccessError.php?docerror=401 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(else|require|include|isset|foreach|global).* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://music-lofo.de/BotBanish/bot/Subs/BotBanish_AccessError.php?docerror=400 [L,QSA]

ErrorDocument 401 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
ErrorDocument 402 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
ErrorDocument 403 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
ErrorDocument 404 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
ErrorDocument 405 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
ErrorDocument 406 /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/Subs//BotBanish_AccessError.php
# * * * * * BotBanish RULES End * * * * *
# * * * * * BotBanish HTACCESS Start * * * * *

# Block .htaccess access

<Files .htaccess>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>
# * * * * * BotBanish HTACCESS End * * * * *


Please excuse me for coming to this page, but for some reason I can no longer access the page. As soon as I tried to send the desired file, I was redirected back to the Google page.
I deleted the cache and cookies, but unfortunately I was still redirected to the wonderful Google page.

I hope it works here:

https:bam-dorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/htaccess-1.zip

PS: I'm online via Vodafone as usual.
I don't use VPN, Tor, or any other proxy.

Ok, this seems to be an issue with your .htaccess file. Can you send that?

What does the script look like? Botbanish removed it.
BotBanish System Cleanup Started

BotBanish Folder Deletion Started

 Directory deleted successfully - /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/bot/
 Directory deleted successfully - /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish/
 Directory deleted successfully - /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/BotBanish_Data/

BotBanish Folder Deletion Complete

BotBanish Table Deletetion Started

Existing tables:
Table Name Engine Rows Collation
bbc_botbanishclient_debug_log InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_debug_trace InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_doc_errors InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_domain_bad InnoDB 12 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_domain_good InnoDB 4 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_htaccess InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_ip InnoDB 26 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_ip_dnb InnoDB 3 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_session InnoDB 1010 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_settings InnoDB 225 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_spiders_bad InnoDB 772 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_spiders_good InnoDB 78 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_tables InnoDB 28 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_url_block InnoDB 6 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_url_dnc InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_website_blocks InnoDB 7 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_website_downloads InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
bbc_botbanishclient_website_visits InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_country_code InnoDB 254 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text InnoDB 0 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_english InnoDB 314 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_french InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_german InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_italian InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_portuguese InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_spanish InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_language_text_swedish InnoDB 317 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_languages InnoDB 7 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
botbanish_timezones InnoDB 202 utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci

BotBanish Table Deletetion Complete

BotBanish File Deletion Started

 Deleted - /home/www/www/music-lofo.de/html/BotBanish_RegisterAccount.html

BotBanish File Deletion Complete

BotBanish .htaccess File Cleanup Started


BotBanish .htaccess File Cleanup Complete


BotBanish System Cleanup Complete

But now there is a new problem.

There seems to be a problem with this website.

https://music-lofo.de/ may be experiencing a temporary issue or has moved.

Error code: 500 Internal Server Error

    The website may be temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.



The Pre-Install Check script should be run on any system that BotBanish will be installed on to make sure that all the components needed are present before attempting an install.

If you have trouble with installation / deinstallation I can help.
Also a new version 7.0.14 was uploaded to correct some minor issues.

What is your site URL. I want to see if it is visible from here.

I checked on the BotBanish server side and the IP you have is not blocked on our server, so it would have to be blocked on your side.

BotBanish will NEVER block the IP of which it was installed with. It will not check that IP for anything.
If I could see the SMF and the server error logs, it would give me a better understanding of the issue.
I can check these things on your server if you would like me too.

Quote from: Randem on January 20, 2026, 11:38:49 AMdaranus,

Here is a link to a script to remove BotBanish BotBanish Cleanup

Procedure:

• Unzip and upload contents into the root of your domain. I.E. The folder where SMF is installed (same location as the sources folder)
• In yoru browser type: https://yourdomain/BotBanishCleanup/BotBanishInstallCleanup.php?system=SMF&version=7.0.12

Of course yourdomain should be replaced with the actual location of your SMF installation.
This will remove BotBanish From your system.

Thank you very much, but I'll take care of that tomorrow. Right now, my concentration is at zero
At 70 years old, you're not as mentally agile...

The problem is that I had an SMF forum around 2017, and after a server crash, I was persuaded to switch to MyBB.
I am an admin, but I have no idea about scripts, PHP, and the like. Until May 2025, I ran my sites on a server with 2 TB via Plesk, 2 blogs, and a forum. However, I had to close it because I have a small pension and pay €40 every month.
A friend installed the new forum for me, but he is very busy.
Now the forum is on a V server with 100 GB and very few settings options.

I can't find the ones listed above with bbc_*.

And I can't access the forum at all.

As soon as I click on the page, Google Search comes up. See image.

daranus,

Here is a link to a script to remove BotBanish BotBanish Cleanup

Procedure:

• Unzip and upload contents into the root of your domain. I.E. The folder where SMF is installed (same location as the sources folder)
• In yoru browser type: https://yourdomain/BotBanishCleanup/BotBanishInstallCleanup.php?system=SMF&version=7.0.12

Of course yourdomain should be replaced with the actual location of your SMF installation.
This will remove BotBanish From your system.

Aloha daranus,

If you are the admin BotBanish will not allow you to be locked out with the IP that it was installed with. Going to the Google page will indicate that the IP used is being blocked. You can verify or correct this by looking in the bbc_botbabisnclient_ip_dnb table to make sure if your ip is in the table. Also truncate the bbc_botbanishclient_session and bbc_botbanishclient_ip tables. We use this on all our sites. Also look in the table SMF error table (log_errors) and let me know what errors that you see.

We use BotBanish in every site we manage including this one.
If this does not help I can send you a script that can uninstall BotBanish.

Unfortunately, I installed the "BotBanish_Client_SMF_v7.0.12" mod, and now no users can log in and only the Google search is displayed.
I can't even access the admin page. Only the Google page appears.
How can I uninstall or deactivate the mod?
I tried to restore a backup before installing BotBanish_Client_SMF_v7.0.12, but instead of the forum, the Google page continues to appear.

I use SMF 2.16