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[Eli L]

EviL said:

Oh God....

I just deleted htaccess and everything seems to work ok. Now, few hours later, all my forum plugins stopped working... I'm having a mess this day... Eli, do you plan to uninstall this soon, or is this a permanent security patch?

This should be permanent.

But I think your issue is because I changed the name of one of your files to leave you a message. "/home/clanuis/public_html/xmlhttp.php" to be exact.

Can you disable that or fix it so its not the #1 resource intensive script on the server?

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[Matty B]

Eli L said:

lol matty. Whats the cookie thing in your sig?

btw: I gave you a cookie w/ comment "<3".

Lol I found it the other day and I'm only the 115th member.. If there were many more I probably wouldn't join

It's also a way to take care of rep anyone wants to give me at any time on any site (sort of a grand total)..

@ Evil.. Eli explained it in the time I posted into another forum!

[EviL]

oh my...

It's ok that file is the most resource intensive script on my site, because all plugins depends on that file. However, I suppose by your warning that it is making the server work too much, so I'll try deactivating some plugins.

Thanks for the info.

[Kevin M]

Wait. So now this is permanent? :eek:

[Eli L]

Kevin M said:

Wait. So now this is permanent? :eek:

If there are no major unsolvable problems with suPHP then yes.

Why is that so bad?

[Kevin M]

The htaccess stuff. Our clients probably won't be thrilled. But if it can keep the server more stable then, I'm for it.

[Kevin M]

Eli L said:

Make sure none of your files/folders are CHMODed to 777.

So we can't have any files or folders to 777? Now THAT is crazy. Some of us need config files to be at 777.

[Eli L]

Kevin M said:

So we can't have any files or folders to 777? Now THAT is crazy. Some of us need config files to be at 777.

From my little tests, folder are writable at 755. And i dont know what permission files are writable just mess with it and you'll find one that works.

But there is NO 777 permissions allowed. They are now evil and the devil. But remember that you now dont need 777 to write to files.

Also if you have files that dont need to be written to then change them to 644.

[Kevin M]

Ooh. I see. So now our PHP Scripts are using our account so they can write to any file of ours. DUH!!! Darn, don't know how I didn't see that. Sorry.

[vista07]

wats going on here?
500 - Internal Server Error


why cant we have any 777 folders? and how do i fix this error???? i cant go chmodding thousands of php files on the account..like ppl are saying here..thats insane!
and i have to use .htaccess too!

whats the quick fix?


thanks..

Edited by vista07, 29 November 2008 - 11:36 PM.

[Kevin M]

As far as I know, there is no quick fix. You'll simply have to follow the directions Eli gave in his second post.

[Eli L]

vista07 said:

wats going on here?
500 - Internal Server Error


why cant we have any 777 folders? and how do i fix this error???? i cant go chmodding thousands of php files on the account..like ppl are saying here..thats insane!
and i have to use .htaccess too!

whats the quick fix?


thanks..

If you want I can ssh into your account and:

find -perm 777 -exec chmod 755 {} ; -print

It finds every file and folder in your account that is 777 and makes it 755.

I found it on the web, i haven't used it yet. So its untested.

[lsproc]

Thanks for the heads up Eli!

[vista07]

This page http://support.lunar...e_bases/show/99

is giving me a

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Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html 500 Internal Server Error

did they install this Su watever too?

[Eli L]

The page works fine for me. And yes, they have suphp installed on some of their servers too.

[Kevin M]

That page is displaying perfectly for me. Maybe the server was going under maintnence at the time you checked.

[vista07]

hmm..it works thru proxy..
not directly..weird..

[River B]

Splappy said:

Not sure if it's related to this....but whatever.
I can't upload any attachments now on my forum.
When I try all I get is this:
"Error Attaching File
The file upload failed. Please choose a valid file and try again. Error details: The attachment could not be found on the server."
I've tried CHMOD-ing the "uploads" directory to 775, but that didn't work.

It needs to be CHMODed to 777 to work but suPHP doesn't allow that. Then you chmod it to 755, suPHP allows it but php doesn't.:mad:

[Eli L]

everything should work with 755

[Kevin M]

zepheria said:

It needs to be CHMODed to 777 to work but suPHP doesn't allow that. Then you chmod it to 755, suPHP allows it but php doesn't.:mad:

It has to. Because SuPHP runs PHP as your own account, with your privileges. In cPanel, do you need to CHMOD a file to 777 before you can edit it? No, because you are the owner of the file, you can of course edit it. But nobody else can.