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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Ban


This module allows you to block visitors to your site that originate from a specific IP address. The IP address can uniquely identify a particular user, but more commonly, it will resolve to a geographical or organizational group, such as a particular business or institution. Typically, you would want to do this if you are experiencing trouble from automated "bots", which are attempting to break in to the site or send spam via a web form.

Enable the Ban module now.

Once enabled, the Ban module provides a new configuration screen labeled IP address bans.

Visit that screen now by navigating to Home | Administration | Configuration | People

(admin/config/people/ban):

To identify potential IP addresses to ban, go to the recent log messages by navigating to Reports | Recent log messages (admin/reports/dblog).

If you see a message that reads something like Login attempt failed from 100.200.300.400, you can identify that a failed login has occurred from the IP address 100.200.300.400.

Note that a...