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I often find a file inserted into the root directory of my forum and it's titled something like this: "5a29c72470e92aa04d38589f1d49262d" And it contains this code: 180.76.5.111|180.76.5.180|66.249.73.39|123.125.71.100|60.169.78.52|180.76.5.151|180.76.5.187|180.76.6.212|157.55.32.105|180.76.5.51|180.76.5.48|180.76.5.149|49.212.172.234|91.224.246.104|91.121.1.146|112.123.169.28|180.76.5.168|180.76.5.66|180.76.5.55|180.76.5.99|180.76.5.190| Looks harmless enough, however, each site that contains this file shows that it is infected when I run it through securi.net. If I delete the file, it comes right back. I've been finding this in various sites acro…
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Virtually all of my IPB sites (dozens) have been infected with maleware. I've upgraded them to 3.4.0 and replaced the files again and again - I am at a sad loss here. I opened a ticket for one, but I have so many sites. All of my VB sites are in tact, but I don't want to migrate my IPB sites back to VB since I love IPB so much. Don't know what to do.
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Hello I am used to lock down directories, which are used for includes etc, using .htaccess directives like this one: .htaccess deny from all Which IP.Board directories can be shut down for public audience? I guess: cache hooks ips_kernel Are there more? Thanks,
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I have a huge forum, and my database size keeps increasing. I need to prune all unapproved posts. I've had a spam problem lately, and there are thousands of posts that are now unapproved, but still in the database. (aka, soft deleted). I wan to permanently delete these posts. In fact, when I mark someone as a spammer, I want any and all posts permanently deleted. I don't want them to be soft deleted. Also.... are there any other techniques I can use to minimize my database size? Thanks. Charles.
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So, i've got an issue with my forum running slow. I applied a patch for topics.php file to remove slow queries from it. I decreased the time limit for "user's publications" from 365 days to 30. But now i have these queries: # Query_time: 12.620211 Lock_time: 0.000077 Rows_sent: 962 Rows_examined: 5833 SET timestamp=1354288278; SELECT author_id, topic_id FROM posts WHERE queued=0 AND author_id=4 AND topic_id IN(18284,18285,18288,18291,18293,18294,18295,18296,18323,18324,18330,18335,18621); # Query_time: 8.061747 Lock_time: 0.000075 Rows_sent: 1596 Rows_examined: 3381 SET timestamp=1354288342; SELECT author_id, topic_id FROM posts WHERE queued=0 AND…
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My hosting company told me that hackers are getting in via the .httaccess file and to delete them. Do I need to actually have that file present in my file? Pros / Cons ?
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Tons of these: client denied by server configuration: /home/public_html/forum/cache/df.php Any ideas what that is`?
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Is anyone running their forum on 5.6 and have anything to report?
Last reply by bikedorkseattle, -
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I moved my site to another dedicated server. IPB gets weird errors at new server, i get these: Error: 126 - Incorrect key file for table '/tmp/#sql_313_1.MYI'; try to repair it Google doesnt help, it could be many things. Has another IPB users got this? How did you fix it?
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When I use Cloudflare, all the IPs are Cloudflare IPs. Can you tell me how to show the IP for the member? I knew how to on vBulletin when I owned it, but I decided to move over to IPB.
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An upgrade from mysql 4 > mysql 5 was performed as the forum is v3.1.4, server had php 5.2.8 and mysql 4, after the upgrade to mysql apache failed, this was resolved by cpanel (who also upgraded php), but the databases now all have tables in them with errors. myisamchk has been run on the tables with errors and despite it saying fixed, they still showed errors, forum was working, but then when I enabled a hook, we now have driver error, running myisamchk on the tables has done the same thing, says its fixed them but still show errors. sql_error_latest.cgi Log file shows: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:23:33 +0000 Error: 1034 - Incorrect key file for table 'ibf_skin…
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I have a dedicated server with Dream host but lately as I log into my ibp ACP I keep getting these messages and I really do not feel compfertable in changing any settings when it comes to the php.ini file for the reasons I simply do not know how to do so properly and those messages are very annoying and my host says it is out of their range of doing it for me so if someone could possibly help me and be as specific as possible my php verson is 5.3 the messages I receive Suhosin Enabled The minimum recommended value for the configuration option 'suhosin.post.max_vars' is 4096, however your value is 1000. Your host will need to change this in the php…
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Hi all, just wondering if anyone else has had any success using rewrite rules in httpd.conf file rather than having an htaccess file ... the main benefit from what I can see of doing this is to save on server resources but I've went into WHM, "Include Editor", "Pre VirtualHost Include" and pasted the contents of my htaccess file (minus the "RewriteBase /" line because that threw up errors) and now my URL's are showing "index.php" again (i.e. http://www.freewarebb.com/index.php/files/file/837-mozil ......) which leads me to believe those instructions aren't being read. Any help appreciated Thanks in advance Marko
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I've used Debian and Ubuntu but quite frankly don't have a preference. What are you using and is there a reason?
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Error: 2006 - MySQL server has gone away I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about MySQL configurations.... I've gotten the above error MULTIPLE times per day, about 3-5 every day for the past 2-3 months... My host says everything's hunky dory with the MySQL server and even increased my timeout to 120 sec... They refuse to help because I have no clue how to reproduce the issue... Just that it happens randomly... I'm running IPC as my homepage, so there are about 45 queries on the main page.. 99.9% of the time this is the query that's returning with the error.. mySQL query error: UPDATE ibf_ccs_blocks SET block_cache_output='',block_cache_last=1352768…
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Hi All, I was asking the guys from support about this and they directed me towards the forums. We have recently setup a varnish server in front of our server which has wordpress, IPB, and a few other apps, We had quite a few issues with Wordpress which we've almost eliminated. I can't use the admin cp, every second click I get brought back to the login screen with message "Your current IP address does not match the one in our records" (see attached) We also seem to be getting a lot of 503 errors in the backend of wordpress but i'm not sure if it's related.
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I installed the latest version of Sphinx 2.0.6. (was 0.9.9 and I upgraded for additional search support. My community searches for things like "p-51" "ys-F-1") The following is the output when I start the search daemon. Is this even fixable or does anyone have Sphinx 2.0.6 running on IPB 3.3.4? Thanks in advance.
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Hi everybody, please I like to know where I can change the canonical URL of my board... I notice that if I write "http://forum.example.com/" my home page is indexable and it works well otherwise if I write "http://forum.example.com/index.php" it isn't indexable and I don't like this... Can I add this URL as canonical URL? many thanks to all
Last reply by Italy Photography Studio, -
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Recently our board switched from IPS PHP Mail to SMTP based Mandrill recently discussed on IPS Blog here, alternatively the other big option is sendgrid. And we had unbelievable results. So I'm starting this thread to get everyone else's feedback on their experience switching away from IPS PHPMail. Our Experience: We do not necessarily have a large board, but we have a fairly active niche community. Before on PHP Mail it seemed only 50% of our members were receiving notifications(transactional emails were not even making it into the spam box), others were sometimes receiving them sometimes not. We've struggled with this problem for the last 2 years. We've attempt…
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Support pointed me in this direction. Here is my case summarised: - IP.Board 3.3.4 - This is on a closed corporate network and I cannot give you access to it. - OS: Linux - Webserver: Apache - $INFO['use_friendly_urls'] = '1'; - Redirect to new friendly URL format: Yes - URL type: path info (have also tried with query string) - Use .htaccess mod_rewrite: Yes <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /ipboard-product/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule . /ipboard-product/public/404.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME…
Last reply by PeterUK, -
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Hello I know IPS need 128mb memory limit to functions correctly. However, is it the ideal memory or would increasing it to 256 or 512 make it work better?
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I plan on switching to Nginx from Apache as now that traffic is up on this particular server Apache is just eating way to much RAM. It's at the point where i can't upgrade the server anymore as the motherboard isn't capable. Its currently got an Intel Xeon E3-1230 and 32GB of RAM. During peak times Apache hit's the 2400 Max clients limit i have then over time leaks memory until the server dies. Now this isn't the result of IP.Board but other sites i manage on this server. I was just wondering is there anything i should know or check out before running any of the IPS products with Nginx ?
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I'm totally new to this, so please bare with the simple question :) I was told to "log into cpanel (access info in the client area here) and then click "backups" to run a full backup.." I've searched and haven't had much luck finding the "cpanel" - can someone direct me to where I can locate this to perform my backup? Thanks!
Last reply by Dmacleo, -
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I stumbled upon Piwik, an open source alternative to GA, that is quite impressive indeed, installed on your private server. Anyone used it in conjunction with IPB? Opinions?
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Can someone tell me their experience on semi dedicated hosting as compared to VPS hosting? My site has outgrown shared hosting and I'm trying to decide whether to go to semi dedicated or VPS. I was told by my current host that with semi dedicated i basically go on a server with with up to 100 other people versus the 500+ on a shared server. Will I notice much of a difference in speed on my site?
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