What was that then?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Jul 2005, 18:44

Haven't been able to access the site since this morning. Anyone (Wangi?) know what the problem was?

Post by **wangi** » 05 Jul 2005, 18:56

Yeah... It went dead about half nine or so but only the forum. I had a hunt round and found what was wrong but couldn't do anything here to fix it...

So emailed the hosting company to get them to correct it.

In the meantime at 5 I sent a fair bit of time putting together a frig that got the forum back up and running under another address and updated the link on the main site page to point there (still does). Of course when I got home it was back working at the normal location and I had an reply to my email...

For a bit of a chuckle folks i'll include the geek-speak:

From: Don Peek [admin@coastlandtech.com]
Sent: Tue 05/07/2005 18:42
To: Lee Kindness
Cc:
Subject: RE: forum

I am sorry, ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s my fault..

I had another Ã¢â‚¬Ëœscript kiddyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ get into the server over the holiday, and I was looking for it. I found a copy of the file from April

And I did not notice the date until later. So I move the folder and I put it back when I found the old date. But I missed that when I did.. I am still looking for the problem.. Except for a few cat naps I have been looking for it sense 3AM this morning.

Again I am sorry, It was an error on my part by not looking at the date in the log file..

Dr.D
Coastland Technologies
Affordable Web Hosting.
And Now.. Domain Names $8.50 a year:
http://CoastlandTech.com/domains

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Kindness [mailto:lkindness@csl.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:42 AM
To: Don Peek
Cc: Bob Jefferson
Subject: RE: forum

Hi Don, we're having a bit of trouble with our phpBB on porty.org.uk this morning. It was working earlier in the morning but then stopped and any attempts to load http://porty.org.uk/phpBB2/ or a page under that results in Apache spitting out a 403 error.

I've checked the account via FTP and the directory entry for phpBB2 is wrong - it is owned by root and not accessible. Can you revert this to the correct userid and permissions please (might need to be recursive).

Do you have any idea how this would have happened? We are/were running the latest version of phpBB 2.0.16.

Thanks/L

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Kindness
Sent: 05 July 2005 11:52
To: 'Bob Jefferson'
Cc: 'paul@entropia.co.uk'

Subject: RE: forum

I've managed to FTP to the site and check the permissions on the "phpBB2" directory:

drwxr-xr-x 9 2010 2010 4096 Jul 29 2004 pg
dr--r--r-- 11 0 0 4096 Jun 29 15:41 phpBB2
drwxrwxrwx 2 2010 2010 4096 Aug 08 2004 picture

Those permissions don't let anyone access that directory apart from the hosting company... And I cannot fix it:

lftp portyweb7049@ftp.porty.org.uk:/www> chmod 777 phpBB2
chmod: Access failed: 550 SITE CHMOD command failed. (phpBB2)
lftp portyweb7049@ftp.porty.org.uk:/www> chmod a+x phpBB2
chmod: Access failed: 550 SITE CHMOD command failed. (phpBB2)

So, question is how did it get like that and do you want me to liase with Don Peek to try and fix it?

L/

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Kindness
Sent: 05 July 2005 11:11
To: 'Bob Jefferson'
Subject: RE: forum

No, likewise.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Jefferson [mailto:r.jefferson@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: 05 July 2005 10:59
To: Lee Kindness
Subject: forum

I cannot access the forum at present. I get:

You are not authorized to view this page
Any idea what the problem is?

Clear as mud?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Jul 2005, 19:01

Ha!

I could have had that sorted right away if you'd asked.!!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 05 Jul 2005, 19:04

ecm wrote:Ha!

I could have had that sorted right away if you'd asked.!!

Erm, I'm guessing cake pictures would not have worked.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Jul 2005, 19:09

Porty wrote: Erm, I'm guessing cake pictures would not have worked.

There's more to me than my fake, cake breasts you know.

Ed · Post by Ed » 05 Jul 2005, 20:14

I feel bad for actually understanding what the problem was

Ed · Post by Ed » 05 Jul 2005, 20:20

Two further problems:

A/ My avatar has disappeared?
B/ I tried uploading a new one (gif and jpg) and got the following:

Warning: copy(./images/avatars/101429936242cadd018be3b.gif): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/portyweb7049/www/forum/includes/usercp_avatar.php on line 239

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/portyweb7049/www/forum/includes/usercp_avatar.php:239) in /home/portyweb7049/www/forum/includes/gzip.php on line 36
Ã¢â‚¬Â¹

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 05 Jul 2005, 20:34

Ed wrote:I feel bad for actually understanding what the problem was

and so you should, young man.

Post by **wangi** » 05 Jul 2005, 20:36

Ed, your avatar back in a jiffy... Problem was the backup I made last week (when updating to phpBB 2.0.16) was only partial - I didn't include the avatars or smilies directories... When I made the frig this afternoon I used a copy of these directories from a few months back...

I'll I need to do is tell phpBB it's back to using "phpBB2" in the path...

...And that would have been it if you hadn't tried to reupload it

Try again!

L/

Ed · Post by Ed » 05 Jul 2005, 20:46

Surely maintenance should be done out of office hours

Sorry, didnt realise it was being unbroken live

Good luck!!!

Novastar · Post by **Novastar** » 07 Jul 2005, 16:59

Clear as mud?

Unfortunatly it's a lot clearer than that to me.

The joys of Unix eh...