Cannot log in to our forum

[CorbinH]

All good now Luke, our server is now running PHP Version 7.1.14.
Thanks for your help.

[CorbinH]

Can you please edit the title to "Can't log in to our forum". Thank you.

[CorbinH]

Hi Luke, thanks for the quick reply.
We have been using 5.4.3 since September last year without any issues. This problem started Wednesday evening (Melbourne time) with the first message. The second...

[CorbinH]

Our forum has been behaving rather erratically this week. Now we can't log in at all. The problem is not with the vBulletin software, but I'm not sure where the fault lies.

First we got this...

[CorbinH]

I have spent a good portion of this morning checking out photography forums (Flickr, redbubble are not forums) and I could not find any that did not allow EXIF data to be displayed.

[CorbinH]

To all administrators of photography forums, currently vBulletin strips out EXIF data from uploaded images.
Simple question - would you like to see a way for EXIF data to be made available?

[CorbinH]

I put in a feature request for EXIF data to be made available on Dec 18 last year and have heard nothing since. Was this considered at all? Other photography forums seem to get by just fine allowing members...

[CorbinH]

Thank you Mark.

[CorbinH]

I am a member (not admin) on a woodwork forum that runs vBulletin (older version, don't know which one) and I receive regular newsletter emails notifying me of updated threads. Is it possible to activate...

[CorbinH]

Thanks Omnibus.

[CorbinH]

Thanks Wayne.

[CorbinH]

Hi Friends,
In my CP Admin "Attachment Type Manager" the sizes set for the JPEG and JPG are:
Maximum File-size: 400,000 / Max Width: 1030 / Max Height: 1030
We have a post...

[CorbinH]

But if the majority of spammers are coming from the 37.21.xxx area wouldn't it make sense to do a blanket ban?

[CorbinH]

Does what I have in the Banned IP address Box not conform to the instructions shown here?

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[CorbinH]

Sorry I thought that I had pasted a screenshot of our banned IP address box.



People banned so far this year.

There is a new user, fapedNah at Australian Photoholics...

[CorbinH]

The message keeps appearing randomly even when I'm posting.
I will get this message,


If I hit OK and the Post button the message will get posted.
I am trying to give you...

[CorbinH]

I have just added two new IP addresses to the banned list and once again I have received the error message as displayed in the OP.
This cannot be a coincidence and I would appreciate an answer as...

[CorbinH]

Thanks guys for the responses, but everything is working okay now. It's been 24 hours since I added the offending IP addresses back in to the box and no error messages.
It must have been some sort...

[CorbinH]

I ran the forum for 24 hours without the addresses in the Banned Internet Address box and the were no instances of the error message. In that this there were 4 instances of spammers trying to join our...

[CorbinH]

So how would I know if Cloudflare is/was being used?