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 For the first time in a long time again i have a persistant ukrainian sucker trying to get into my belgian site.admin pannel. Auto ban was set after 3 attacks in 1 day, ban for 24. The person triggered it after 6 with 2h intervals.

Currently the WAF shows a basic text message in the trend of "go away bad person" :p.

Now i was wondering, is there a way to "spruce" things up a little like you can with custom error pages? I want those suckers to have something "nice" to look at, like by using the front side template, or with custom html code.

Is this possible or could it be added? If yes, you'd make me a happy camper but i won't ask for a timeline. Just would be happy to see it at some point.

I can understand a joomla template one isn't doable, but a "nice" one using some basic html should be doable like is possible with custom error pages. I don't see see how such a page could cause a dos attack. banned is banned. All i want to do is give them something nice to look at (image with a little text :p)

awesome how could i have overlooked that. Seems just like what i want. imma get to work ^^

Though if i can make a suggestion for improvement, i'd make it possible to add the html code from within AT with a preview option. Upon "save", it would then create the file and save it in the appropriate directory.

Bare with me. We'll get there eventually

I'm in template manager > modify template > click on "preview" joomla shows me a red page "access denied", rather fancy looking but that's probably not where i want to be right?

However clicking on "preview" seemt to have triggered a security exception. I'll add that message at the bottom.

so i click on
1) "<templatename> data and files"
2) tab "create overrides"
3) clicked under column "components" on "com_admintools" and then blocks
4) was alerted with a green message

Override created in /templates/<templatename>/html/com_admintools/blocks

Creation of override succesful

I suppose that's what i want, and all i need to do now is log into FTP, download that file, make my customisations and upload it again?
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Security exception:

Hello,
We would like to notify you that a security exception was detected on your site, <sitename>, with the following details:
IP Address: <my ip address> (IP Lookup: IP Lookup)
Reason: template= in URL
If this kind of security exception repeats itself, please log in to your site's back-end and add this IP address to your Admin Tools's Web Application Firewall feature in order to completely block the misbehaving user.
Best regards,


The exceptions log shows:

2015-08-19 14:31:29 <my ip> template= in URL <domain>/index.php?tp=1&template=protostar
2015-08-19 14:30:30 <my ip> template= in URL <domain>/index.php?tp=1&template=<templatename>

But if i'm right thats due to having enabled "visual fingerprint security" and both "block tmpl=foo system template change" and "block template=foo website template change"

which one would i need to disable again for "preview" to work" or would you recommended i leave them enabled?

i did. That's what i said. The manual instructs how to do it manually, but the override creator did that automatically. The default.php file was created in the proper folder i think. I just want to make sure.

/public_html/templates/<templatename>/html/com_admintools/blocks

The content of that default.php indicates a standard Error 403 forbidden, and not the "You are a spammer, hacker or an otherwise bad person." I just want to make sure it's the proper file

and

You're not reading what i'm saying, and ya skipped the part about what i need to (temp disable) to have the preview working again entirely.

display a link to that page. Don't think the hacker wannabe will click on it.

Still not reading what i'm saying

I just want to make sure it's the proper file

Is that, or isn't that the proper file to edit?

You're saying that page can show the "you're a spammer..." message too so i'm fine with editing that one. I'll have a look at the alpha, but not going to use an alpha release on a live site. Security & stability reasons, sure u understand