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The NEW central antispam blacklist

Permalink May 12, 2006 @ 17:55, by Francois Planque • Category: b2evolution.net

Thanks to Ed (Head of Central Antispam) and Ryan (New Host), we now have a brand new host for our central antispam list. It's a separate host from the main site, so we might get better performance on the one or the other if not both ;)

Because it's a new server, you will need to do some small modifications to your b2evo installation if you want to take advantage of it.

Pick your easiest solution:

Solution 1

You're not in a hurry: just wait for the next 0.9.2 [Update: available now] or 1.8-alpha release and you'll be fine.

Solution 2

You care a lot about antispam, but not so much about pinging b2evo when you publish a new post.

Just go into your /conf/_advanced.php file, and at the end of the file replace this line:

$evonetsrv_host = 'b2evolution.net';

with this line:

$evonetsrv_host = 'antispam.b2evolution.net';

Solution 3

You're running version 0.9.1 and you want it all:

Go the end of your /conf/_advanced.php file, and add the following lines:

$antispamsrv_host = 'antispam.b2evolution.net';
$antispamsrv_port = 80;
$antispamsrv_uri = '/evonetsrv/xmlrpc.php';

Note the $antispamsrv prefix. It is different from the existing $evonetsrv lines.

Download this file and use it to replace your existing /b2evocore/_functions_antispam.php file. (If you have trouble with downloading the PHP file, you can get this ZIPped file instead).

CVS

Note: CVS servers are not up to date right now because SourceForge? has had them down for the whole week... stay tuned.

Update: 0.9.2 is now up to date on CVS (look for the v-0-9-1 branch).

43 comments

Comment from: Reed Loden [Visitor]
Reed LodenUhh, the SourceForge page returns it as text/html... Might want to rename it to .phps or .php.txt or something.
2006-05-12 @ 20:12
Comment from: ednong [Visitor]
ednongHi,
I think you mean with Ed the nick EdB, isn't it? ;)
The solution 1 is great – but how long? ;) I know, the CVS server and I will chose an other one.
Thanks for your work, guys

ed
2006-05-12 @ 21:21
Comment from: John [Visitor]
JohnThanks, solution 3 worked fine.
2006-05-12 @ 22:20
Comment from: Beano [Visitor]
BeanoGreat to see it back up again - I thought from the post last week that 0.9.2 would be here by now, but big thanks to the guys doing the hosting.
2006-05-13 @ 01:58
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoTried solution 3 didn't work got a text page. Please let us know when it'll work and I'll redo the changes. Thanks for all the effort on this.
2006-05-13 @ 02:49
Comment from: Robbo [Visitor]
RobboThanks to Ed and Ryan for keeping this valuable tool going...
2006-05-13 @ 03:54
Comment from: Melle [Visitor]
Mellecheers!
2006-05-13 @ 13:58
Comment from: Beano [Visitor]
BeanoVincent if it doesn't work you've done something wrong - mine works fine.
2006-05-13 @ 22:48
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoThis is what I get when following #3 instrcutions when anyone tries to go to my blog.

http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/evocms/_functions_antispam.php
2006-05-14 @ 07:06
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoNevermind and thanks; the file I dled was corrupt - redid it and it works now.
2006-05-14 @ 07:12
Comment from: Novi O'Magum [Visitor]
Novi O'MagumSolution #3 works fine here. Thanks guys!
2006-05-14 @ 09:59
Comment from: anne [Visitor]
anneThank you very much, solution no.3 works fine.
2006-05-14 @ 15:54
Comment from: Volatile Yard [Visitor]
Volatile YardThanks! Solution #3 works fine for me.
2006-05-15 @ 08:33
Comment from: Francois Planque [Member] Email
For those of you having trouble with downloading the PHP file, you can get this ZIPped version of the same file here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/evocms/_functions_antispam.zip?download
2006-05-15 @ 17:57
Comment from: egreencafes [Visitor]
egreencafesThank you, Solution #3 works great.
2006-05-15 @ 17:58
Comment from: Mike [Visitor]
MikeThanks! I'm glad I can stay up to date on my antispam! Solution 3 worked fantastic for me, no problems! Thank you!
2006-05-15 @ 20:21
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
JasonI made the changes recommended in option 3. Now I am getting the error that says: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in .../b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1082.

I can't find antispam_url() defined anywhere. Is this a problem with my theme or what?
2006-05-15 @ 21:08
Comment from: Vincent Navarino [Visitor]
Vincent NavarinoI am all of a sudden getting the same error message. Diff line but the same one too!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in .../b2evocore/_functions.php on line 1076
2006-05-16 @ 04:28
Comment from: Sheena Van Der Mark [Visitor]
Sheena Van Der MarkJust to add another voice to the above comments - I'm also getting a similar error when I try to remove spam, but not only in a different line, it seems to also be in a differnt file:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: antispam_url() in /hsphere/local/home/svanderm/blog.svandermark.com/admin/b2antispam.php on line 211
2006-05-16 @ 07:01
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
JasonRegarding the "antispam_url()" error a few of us have been getting.... what version of b2evo are you guys running? This update is for 0.9.1, but I'm running 0.9.0.12. Maybe the difference between 0.9.0.12 and 0.9.1 is causing this problem? Yes? No? Anybody know?
2006-05-16 @ 22:32

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