Ban IP Address plugin for CakePHP

A quick way to ban IP addresses. It`s a plugin for CakePHP 4.x.

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require triopsi/banned-tool

Database migration

Run the following command in the CakePHP console to create the tables using the Migrations plugin:

bin/cake migrations migrate -p BannedTool

Load Plugin

Via the Load task you are able to load plugins in your config/bootstrap.php. You can do this by running:

bin/cake plugin load BannedTool

Manually

Put this in the application.php in the bootstrap method:

$this->addPlugin('BannedTool');

Install middleware

To use the tool you need to add the following code snippet to your Application.php in the middleware section. eIt is not always recommended to put the Banned Middleware first.

use BannedTool\Middleware\BannedMiddleware;
use Cake\View\View;

public function middleware( MiddlewareQueue $middlewareQueue ): MiddlewareQueue {
    ...
    ->add(
        new BannedMiddleware(
            array(
            'className' => View::class,
            'templatePath' => 'Error',
            'statusCode' => 403,
            'templateLayout' => false,
            'templateFileName' => 'banned',
            'templateExtension' => '.php',
            'contentType' => 'text/html',
            )
        )
        ...
)

Customizing

Make sure you have a template file in 'templates' . DS . 'Error' . DS named banned.php.

Configs:

'className' => View::class,
'templatePath' => 'Error',
'statusCode' => 403,
'templateLayout' => false,
'templateFileName' => 'banned',
'templateExtension' => '.php',
'contentType' => 'text/html'

Those can be used to adjust the content of the banned page.

Ban Component

This component adds functionality on top:

Add ip Address to the banlist
Remove ip Address from the banlist
Check if the IP address is in the banlist
List all banned ip addresses

How to setup

// In your App Controller Class (src/Controller/AppController)
public function initialize() {
    ...
    $this->loadComponent('BannedTool.Banned');
}

Ban Commands

This should be the preferred way of enabling and disabling the maintenance mode for your application.

Commands

add ban <ip_addresses>
rm ban <ip_addresses>
list bans