>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #422974. --> Reported by: [Carlos Miranda Levy](https://www.drupal.org/user/15174) >>> <p>Many have tried to explain it before, even myself. But now that two fixes are required to get the module working (and given the blessing this module is for sites targeted by spammers), I'll try to summarize both steps in a simple set of instructions...</p> <ol> <li>Download and Install module as Instructed.</li> <li>Download the latest bad-behavior code from <a href="http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/">http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/</a> as instructed. <ul> <li>In order to make it easier for you, do not unzip it in sites/all/badbehavior...</li> <li>Unzip it somewhere else.</li> <li>This creates a "bad-behavior" folder, with several files in it... most likely:<br> <pre>bad-behavior-generic.php bad-behavior-wordpress-admin.php index.html<br>bad-behavior-lifetype.php bad-behavior-wordpress.php README.txt<br>bad-behavior/ bad-behavior-mediawiki.php COPYING</pre></li> <li>Now, you <strong>don't</strong> want to copy that folder into your module folder.</li> <li>Copy the contents <strong>(not the folder)</strong> of the resulting "bad-behavior" folder, including the bad-behavior-generic.php file and the "bad-behavior" folder within, to sites/all/modules/badbehavior. <ul> <li>That is... copy the contents of the folder, not the folder itself.</li> <li>Notice that there is a sub-folder called bad-behavior in it.</li> <li>You <strong>do</strong> want to copy the contents of the folder and the sub-folder into your badbehavior module folder.</li> </ul> </li> <li>As a result, the bad-behavior-generic.php file should be in the same folder as badbehavior.module, that is "sites/all/modules/badbehavior".</li> <li>And there should be a "bad-behavior" sub-folder with several files under "sites/all/modules/badbehavior", so that "sites/all/modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior" has within it files such as:<br> <pre>common_tests.inc.php index.html msie.inc.php safari.inc.php core.inc.php konqueror.inc.php msnbot.inc.php screener.inc.php<br>banned.inc.php functions.inc.php lynx.inc.php opera.inc.php trackback.inc.php blackhole.inc.php&nbsp; google.inc.php movabletype.inc.php&nbsp; post.inc.php version.inc.php blacklist.inc.php housekeeping.inc.php mozilla.inc.php responses.inc.php&nbsp; whitelist.inc.php</pre></li> <li>You can now delete the original unzipped bad-behavior folder.</li> <li>You should now have on bad-behavior subfolder under the badbehavior module folder and that's it, no subfolder under the subfolder...<br> <pre>sites/all/modules/badbehavior<br>sites/all/modules/badbehavior/bad-behavior</pre></li> </ul> </li><li>Edit the bb2_read_settings() function in badbehavior.module (around line 204) as suggested in <a href="http://drupal.org/files/issues/logging.patch">this patch for v5.x</a><br> <pre>remove the line:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'strict' =&gt; variable_get('badbehavior_strict_checking_enable', 0),<br>in its place, add:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'logging' =&gt; 1,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'strict' =&gt; variable_get('badbehavior_strict_mode_enable', 0),</pre></li> </ol> <p>You should be all set and able to see rejected requests and their ip's at "yoursite/admin/reports/badbehavior" (if clean url's are enabled).</p> <p>In short, the above instructions represent the instructions below at shell level...</p> <pre>cd public_html/sites/all/modules<br>wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/badbehavior-6.x-1.0-rc2.tar.gz<br>tar -zxvf badbehavior-6.x-1.0-rc2.tar.gz<br>wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bad-behavior.2.0.25.zip<br>unzip bad-behavior.2.0.25.zip<br>cp -r bad-behavior/* badbehavior<br>rm -rf bad-behavior</pre><p> And for the edit of the badbehavior.module file:</p> <pre>pico badbehavior/badbehavior.module</pre><p>Hope this helps others and saves them time (this is the 3rd time I have to sit down and go through the issues to figure out how to get this wonderful module to run properly).</p>