Forum hacked?

adrian.

I got up this morning and checked my vanilla forum as per usual over breakfast but the setup page automatically came up when trying to access it.

why the hell would a forum see itself as needing to be installed again?

Gauzy

i get this every once in a while, usually a quick refresh fixes it. there's a topic or two floating around about this issue, but it's never been that serious for me

y2kbg

hmm i just saw someone else with this exact problem also...

Dinoboff

The setting page appear when the appg/settings.php can't find conf/settings.php.

That can happen when the permission of conf/ or its files are changed.or maybe because of network problem.

the setting page won't do anything if the forum is already installed

WallPhone

Very strange it would happen on the same day--what version are you running?

adrian.

I was on version 1.1, I am going to upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible.

Its a private forum too, ie non members cannot browse it...

oddd

Mark

That is wierd. I've never had that....

SlashedZero

One of my forums has got its settings file corrupt twice (0kb), which caused the same problem. I've no idea why.

DraganBabic

^ what he said. It happened something like two weeks ago for no apparent reason. The board is on Dreamhost.

SlashedZero

The strange thing is I've several forums on the same host (OVH) and it only occured on one forum, always the same.

Oreganoflow

i had the same problem yesterday. Wallphone assisted in getting it corrected.

alecglen

I've had the same problem on a couple of occasions so I just keep an up-to-date settings.php handy, strange to think how it happens really.

Stash

I had this exact same problem 2 days ago. I luckily had a backup of the php files and uploaded them again which solved the problem. I've also deleted the setup directory now as well, as I'd rather had a different error than something that could potentially destroy the database.

This was on a FlexiHostings server, the Dreamhost server was fine.

WallPhone

My unix command lines are a bit rusty, but next time this happens, before fixing the problem, this command should retrieve the last ten page requests from the log before it started going to setup:tail cat access_log | grep -v "setup/" | grep -v "302"Tail of the cat, so to speek.

RabbitAbout

Hello,

I have just experienced this problem - conf/settings.php = 0kb.
Could somebody, please advise me how I can find out my ['APPLICATION_PATH']
eg.= ['APPLICATION_PATH'] = '/mnt/web1/xx/xx/xxxxxxxx/htdocs/forums/';
with this info, I can amend the conf/settings file from another forum

Many thanks in advance

ThaRiddla

most FTP programs will give you that full path somewhere in the application.

jakob_r

Not really a solution to the problem, but maybe vanilla could be made to keep the previous version of conf/settings.php as conf/settings.bak when it is written to. At least that way there would always be the last backup.

RabbitAbout

Thanks ThaRiddla,

I will have to start using my old version of wise-FTP.
I have been using web-FTP from my hosting company (as it's a lot easier) but doesn't give me this info :-(

I appreciate your quick answer to my problem.

RabbitAbout

Oh Dear! I am stumped.
Can't find ['APPLICATION_PATH'] = '/mnt/web1/xx/xx/xxxxxxxx/htdocs/forums/';
anywhere using my FTP program.

Would any of the files in my vanilla set up (apart from the missing one) have this information ?

Thanks

Dinoboff

to get it with php add that in a file in the root directory :echo dirname(__FILE__);

Hamed

this happens to me too and i am using 1.1.4 well the newest one so far