Floodblocker error [SOLVED]

[Patricia]

Hi Everyone,

This morning, for different reasons that I now damn, I decided to give the floodblocker tool a try. It left me with this unseemly message: Cron file access error! Check permissions to write. in ..../includes/floodblocker.class.php on line 201. I first tried to disactivate the tool but to no avail. Then I tried to change permissions on floodblocker.class.php. Still to no avail. Next stop: Elxis forum. Did a little search. Found a topic in the greek community. Translated it with BabelFish. Tried to follow datahell instructions... but still to no avail.

I think now it's time for me to try my last chance: Asking you guys for help. Please step in and quick.

Thank you for reading.

Patricia

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Hi Patricia,
can you check if administrator/tools/floodblocker/logs directory is opened for writing?

[Patricia]

Hi Ivan.

Yes. It is.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Your PHP version?

EDIT:
You said you cannot disable it, so you can do it trought FTP.
Disable it by editing file administrator/tools/floodblocker/config.php.... just make $fconf_enabled = 0

[Patricia]

Thank you Ivan. Floodblocker disabled. Site back to normal.

And just cause you asked my PHP version is 5.2.5

[datahell]

As Ivan said, logs folder must be writable (permissions 777). If there are any files inside that folder they must be also writable (permissions 666) in order FloodBlocker to be able to overwrite them. PHP cannot write inside this folder and it triggers this error.

FloodBlocker logs directory
administrator/tools/floodblocker/logs/

Relevant source code
includes/flooodblocker.class.php lines 159-163:

$path = $this->logs_path . $this->ip_addr;

if ( ! ( $f = @fopen ( $path, 'a+' ) ) ) {
      trigger_error ( FLOOD_LOG_FILE, E_USER_ERROR);
}