htaccess problem after upgrade

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

Hi all,
Seems I have a problem. I upgraded sentinel today from 2.1.3 to 2.2.0 and since the upgrade htaccess on my site isn't working at all. I went so far as to completely remove sentinel and reinstall it 5 times. After 5 hours of dealing with all this im about fedup and ready to dump my site and go with HTML.

As it stands my site is running 7.5.0.2.9 which I downloaded from either nukescripts.net or nukecode.com can't remember. All the latest NSN modules including downloads, center blocks, supporters and news. I ran the site with 2.1.3 for about 2 hours with all the new stuff and everything was fine and dandy as soon as I upgraded to 2.2.0 no htaccess and Ideas about what could be wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

I should add that I didn't change anything in the htaccess file or change the file itself and as I said it worked fine before the upgrades

CurtisH · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:11 pm

I had to revert back to 2.1.3 myself... 2.2.0 was giving me quite a bit of trouble. I will have to wait for replies in my help request. I couldn't get it block IP's other than via htaccess (manually or automatically) even after removing all components and reinstalling 7 times. It just would add the IP's to the database. Plus there was the Forum admin issue that I like to have never gotten resolved. I imagine I did something wrong somewhere but cannot figure out what for the life of me. *LOL*

grantb · Regular Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 67 Location: Canada

I have found the HTTP Auth not working at all as well..after upgrade from 2.1.3 to 2.2.0 shows all passwords set and path is ok...i hope there is an fix for this? by the way.. php-nuke7.4(2.9) bbtonuke2.13

DaveTomneyUK · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 27, 2003 Posts: 49

I maybe wrong but does it not say that Sentinel 2.2.0 is only for PHP-Nuke 7.1 and 7.6 running the ChatServ patch 2.9? As I run PHP-Nuke 7.6 with Patch 2.9 and it works fine.

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

Quote:

I maybe wrong but does it not say that Sentinel 2.2.0 is only for PHP-Nuke 7.1 and 7.6 running the ChatServ patch 2.9? As I run PHP-Nuke 7.6 with Patch 2.9 and it works fine.

Glad it works for ya... BUT it's meant for 7.x 2.9

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

I thought if I posted my htaccess files contents it might help. So here they are:

Code:

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 200.176.3.142
deny from 200.177.162.127
deny from 200.101.197.249
deny from 195.239.237.98
deny from 213.30.159.52
deny from 201.4.40.49
deny from 69.56.181.122
deny from 66.82.9.83
deny from 200.100.41.79
deny from 201.7.49.147
deny from 200.180.18.123
deny from 69.93.7.146
deny from 213.186.42.47
deny from 200.226.137.9
deny from 209.202.218.12
deny from 200.227.112.169
deny from 81.208.22.98
deny from 201.3.47.185
deny from 200.160.2.15
deny from 201.9.9.140
deny from 24.56.17.114
deny from 68.51.252.87
deny from 195.43.41.107

Yes there is a blank line at the end of it.
Someone please help a girl out Smile

DaveTomneyUK · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 27, 2003 Posts: 49

I know an easy way to test if your htaccess file works try put this in your file

Code:

deny from all

In your root folder and when you goto your site is should say forbidden to everyone. Then you will know your htaccess file works.

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

It worked before the NukeSentinel Upgrade. Since the upgrade it doesn't and it has not changed so I think it would be safe to assume the htaccess file itself does work. FYI I removed 2.2.0 and replaced it with 2.1.3 and the htaccess started working... I put back 2.2.0 and it stopped. Same File 2 different versions. Works fine with one doesn't work with the other.

grantb · Regular Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 67 Location: Canada

Well I guess it's time to look for an alternative solution. I think I will try Admin Secure. I don't know what else to do. Thanks anyways...

CurtisH · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:24 pm

evaria wrote:

It worked before the NukeSentinel Upgrade. Since the upgrade it doesn't and it has not changed so I think it would be safe to assume the htaccess file itself does work. FYI I removed 2.2.0 and replaced it with 2.1.3 and the htaccess started working... I put back 2.2.0 and it stopped. Same File 2 different versions. Works fine with one doesn't work with the other.

Same issue here. Had to switch back to 2.1.3 as well as HTTPAuth stopped working with 2.2.0, meaning that I no longer got the pop up request for username and pass.

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

question is ,does everybody has this problem or just some of us...
im just waiting with the upgrade...

evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

Anyone???? Have an answer to this I went back to 2.1.3 had nothing but problems with the site

CurtisH · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:41 am

Look at this thread, it might help you

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evaria · New Member Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 10

Thanks but during the time I was waiting for someone to help me. My site was hacked and totally whiped out. A WEEK IS A BIT LONG TO BE WAITING FOR SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS THIS. So I am going back to good ole HTML. The whole experience I had with PHP Nuke was nightmarish to say the least. Patch this, upgrade that it made the entire experience of owning a site kinda tedious. I patched my site to 2.9 and viola found the forums didn't work Crying or Very sad

Fixed that problem then found other things didn't work. Im not saying PHP Nuke isn't a good thing. But in my mind it isn't a primetime player yet. Too many bugs and too easy even with sentinel to exploit. PLAIN OLD HTML HERE I COME!!!!!

Raven · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:02 pm

Not sure how you calculate that you were waiting a week. You were being helped as you posted your issues. There are thousands of people using Nuke and NukeSentinel w/o any problems so it does make it a tedious process to resolve when a particular site is having problems. I would try to determine how the hack occurred befor throwing the baby out with the bath water and assuming one thing or another.

CurtisH · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:22 pm

evaria wrote:

Thanks but during the time I was waiting for someone to help me. My site was hacked and totally whiped out. A WEEK IS A BIT LONG TO BE WAITING FOR SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS THIS. So I am going back to good ole HTML. The whole experience I had with PHP Nuke was nightmarish to say the least. Patch this, upgrade that it made the entire experience of owning a site kinda tedious. I patched my site to 2.9 and viola found the forums didn't work Crying or Very sad

Fixed that problem then found other things didn't work. Im not saying PHP Nuke isn't a good thing. But in my mind it isn't a primetime player yet. Too many bugs and too easy even with sentinel to exploit. PLAIN OLD HTML HERE I COME!!!!!

Did you buy your Nuke from someone here? If so then maybe that attitude is ok, but if not...well no one here owes you anything. I can understand your frustration, but please do not take it out on us. We all help when we can. Sometimes (many actually) our personal lives take so much of our time we are unable to reply in as quick of a manner as we would like.

Now in regards to your hacked site. Do you make daily backups of your database and your root directory like the rest of us? That is a key responsibility of any webmaster. Restoring a back up would have fixed your hacked site immediately.

As for whether or not Nuke is ready for prime time...well that is indeed a matter of opinion. Many have no problems at all providing they perform the normal duties of a conscientious webmaster (i.e. backups before upgrading or patching). I have also seen many that DO have problems which usually are the outcome of either making a mistake or NOT managing backups.

I am sorry that Nuke isn't your cup of tea. It definitely is not for everyone. Personally I enjoy working with it and helping others where and when I can. I don't always have the answers though and troubleshooting across the net via a message board can sometimes be tricky. Can I get an amen? *LOL*

No flame intended. I just too frequently see posts that appear to be "biting" when in all honesty it is unjust.

Hope I didn't offend anyone. Smile

labadore · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:24 am

I just upgraded sentinel from 2.1 to 2.2 and upgraded chatserv 2.8 to 2.9....Im running 7.6 platinum and now all of a sudden I cannot add blocks....I'm so screwed because I had everything working prior to this move...I had a bad feeling about updating the two at the same time and now I dont know which one is causing my problem since Im not very knowledgable with php. Does anyone know why I cannot add blocks? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!! I searched the web and found posts reffering to the nuke_blocks table having extra fields but my fields seem normal. I did look in the blocks.php and noticed a variable was missing that was in the table, think it was groups. Couldnt find anything about this though so I dont know if its a bug...Ive searched the web all day saturday to fix it and now its sunday night and since I cant find the answer....i said what the hell and decided to finally post =)

also does sentinel effect (add fields) to any tables that came with 7.6 platinum or does it just add its own tables to the db?

And if this bug is off the wall without an easy fix, is there anyway to back out of chatserv 2.9 and sentinel 2.2 without hours and hours of work and wiping out the database?

Please Help

Its probably something stupid I did that you guys will recognize.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

well im not sure but it could be caused by your blocks file in admin/modules/blocks.php
so try using your old blocks.php

Raven · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:37 am

NukeSentinel does NOT add any fields to any existing nuke tables. To verify if NukeSentinel is a part of the cause, simply edit the NukeSentinel code that you added to your mainfile.php.

labadore · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:27 am

Raven I did what you said and removed that chunk of code added to mainfile.php and I still cannot add blocks. I guess it's not sentinel, it must of been my chatserv 2.9 upgrade. hitwalker on saturday I tried all day removing the new blocks.php from 2.9 and replacing with the old one from 2.8 but still could not add blocks. I just realized, when I converted from nuke 7.5 to 7.6 platinum, I had not tried to add any new blocks until after I made the chatserv 2.9 switch..These are the fields I have in the nuke_blocks table....

bid
bkey
title
content
url
bposition
weight
active
refresh
time
blanguage
blockfile
view
groups
expire
action
subscription
display
-----------------------------
these are the parameters I have in the blocks.php BlocksAdd function....

function BlocksAdd($title, $content, $url, $bposition, $active, $refresh, $headline, $blanguage, $blockfile, $view, $expire, $action, $subscription) {

seems like groups is missing....Im not sure and Im probably on a wild goose chase but....if someone can please help me figure out why I cannot add blocks it would be much appreciated.....thank you soooo much!!!!!!

Raven · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:32 am

Have you reviewed your server error log to see if any messages are being written to the log?

labadore · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:01 am

can you please tell me where to find that, I certainly will check...

is that built into phpnuke or do I have to goto my hosting provider for that?

Raven · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:26 am

Normally you have access to your server access and error logs via your control panel, like cPanel, Plesk, etc.

labadore · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:45 am

my host, webhost4life, said this...

customer will not have direct access to the server error log,

can you tell us if there is anything else we can help you with, thanks!