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Security Issues - Get help in securing your PHP-NUKE Installation.
Site Hacked
My site got hit tonight, luckly the ass only new how to mess with the forums. My site is all good but I cant access the forums, I'm running PHP-Nuke 7.8. My forums are completely screwed, is there anyway to install the forums again and not having to install PHP-Nuke again? I've been trying to upgrade phbb2 but it wont let me. So I tried to do a full install of this and it keeps saying couldn't access the database name. I've written my provider for some answer about that but you know how long it takes them....
where do I find the following information??
Database Server Hostname / DSN:
Your Database Name:
Database Username:
Database Password:
This is one of the reasons why we dont recommend you use any php-nuke build over 7.6 very high security issues. You actually want to upgrade the bbtonuke and
NOT phpbb. If you try and update using phpbb you will break your whole site. Your forums are ported to bbtonuke and not phpbb. If you have tryed to patch your forums using phpbb then you will have to start from scratch with a whole new build of your site. If not then you will be able to rebuild your your forums without having to rebuild your site. I would suggest that until you properly secure your site by updating your forums that you close your site for securtiy reasons. If you are using stock 7.8 we highly recommend that you install the latest Chatserv patch for your build of php-nuke. The latest Chatserv path for 7.8 can be found by clicking
HERE. This is only for stock 7.8 is you are using any other build like platinum this will not work. The patch addresses secuity issues related to 7.8 it also upgrades your forums to 2.0.20 which is almost the newest update. Once updated to update your forums in the future you will need to download the bbtonuke upgrade you have to go in order so if you dont update to 2.0.21 and it is telling you that the newest update is 2.0.22 then you will need to download and run the 2.0.21 update before going on to 2.0.22. Unless you update a patch as I have mentioned above then you wont have to do that as it configures the database for you when you run the update script. But back to your answer if you are running stock 7.8 then just download a copy from the downloads section, stock php-nuke 7.8 can be found by clicking
HERE. The rest of the instructions is assuming that you are using CPanel but login cpanel. Click on the MySql Databases icon --> scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on PhpMyAdmin --> now click on DataBases and choose your database --> find all nuke_bb tables and put a check in the box --> scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find a drop down box that says "With Selected" drop that box down to "Drop" and confirm you want to drop the tables. All of this is also assuming that you didnt try to upgrade your forums and you didnt upload and over ride any files inside of your db, or modules folder of the root of your site. But next go to the sql folder of the 7.8 that you download from above this would be the
STOCK and not the Chatserv patch open the sql file with word pad. The first nuke_bb table you will find will be
| Code: : |
| # Estructura de tabla para la tabla `nuke_bbauth_access` |
highlight and copy from there all the way down to | Code: : |
| # Volcar la base de datos para la tabla `nuke_bbwords` |
and stop at this line highlight this line of code completely but do not go past it. Once you have all of this copied now go back into your Cpanel --> MySql Databases --> phpMyAdmin --> Choose your database --> look at the top for the SQL tab paste all of that data inside of that box and click Go. This should successfully query your sql and build the required tables. Next go to your site and login to your admin and go to your forums section in your admin panel. You will have to configure your forums again and start new but you will have your forums restored. I would suggest that once you have configured your forums and tested that they do work you install the Chatserv patch mentioned earlier. Be sure to backup your site and your site only, you dont need to backup your downloads. And by site I mean anything file or folder that is used to build the actual site, also backup your SQL file this can be done by going to Cpanel --> MySqlDatabases --> phpMyAdmin --> select your database --> Click on the Export tab at the top --> leave all settings alone except click the box marked "Save as file" and click the options zipped below this and click go at the very bottom. This should pop up a box for you to save a file save it locally on your computer this is your entire SQL file for your site. If anything should go wrong when updating you will need all of the files from your backup and your SQL file to restore you site back. Hope this helps you out. But if you tryed to patch your forums in anyway with a phpbb patch then you have broke you site and you will need to completely start over.
Side note your DB info you needed above can be found in the config.php file in the root of your site. You will need all of that info if you update to the newest Chatserv patch so I would copy it down before doing the patch as the patch over rides your current config.php file. So copy and paste that info down and then copy it into the new config.php in the appropiate places replacing the stock values for that file.
