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What sort of problems? When I look at it, I still see it as it was.

Hi Nat, You can read the tobots.txt specification but the basic concept is simple: by writing a structured text file you can indicate to robots that certain parts of your server are off-limits to some or all robots. It is best explained with an example: ># /robots.txt file User-agent: webcrawler Disallow: User-agent: lycra Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /tmp Disallow: /logs The first line, starting with '#', specify a comment The first paragraph specifies that the robot called 'webcrawler' has nothing disallowed: it may go anywhere. The second paragraph indicates that the robot called 'lycra' has all relative URLs starting with '/' disallowed. Because all relative URL's on a server start with '/', this means the entire site is closed off. The third paragraph indicates that all other robots should not visit URLs starting with /tmp or /log. Note the '*' is a special token, meaning "any other User-agent"; you cannot use wildcard patterns or regular expressions in either User-agent or Disallow lines.

In the file /Skin/s1/skin_global.php fine the section; ><div id='logostrip'> <a href='{$ibforums->base_url}' title='Board Home'><img src='{$ibforums->vars['img_url']}/logo4.gif' alt='Powered by Invision Power Board' border="0" /></a> </div> change the code to ><div> <a href='{$ibforums->base_url}' title='Home'><img src='{$ibforums->vars['img_url']}/logo4.gif' alt='verticaloutlawz' border="0" /></a> </div> and change the /invisionboard/style_images/1/logo4.gif to your big gif (not the small one)

wigoweb Thanks - that couldn't have been put better Please be assured - we will be maintaining our forums, we love the family - even when we have a few heated discussions

Hi, Just to ensure this thread doesn't get to out of hand - because people can read things that were not intended by the writer, and almost start a flame war I'll try and summarise a few key points. If you are looking at scripts, I think the advice earlier was excellent (thanks mjovery2 ) If you have not received an email, please let us know via the support desk, customer support department. That way we can have a look at your records and discuss individually why your record might not have got through. It is not something we can check easily via the forum (unless you want your email caught by those email harvesters). If you are unsure if you have not got the latest version of your software. Please check fist on the site for that software. If you can't find out, then contact the support team, and we'll try and help Please also remember, that just because the script was up-to-date the day you put it on (even if it was from our cpanel) that does not mean it is up-to-date today.

Tim, This is usually because you are not using Passive FTP (PASV). Make sure that is set, then hopefully it will be fine.

mjovery2 Thanks for your comments, and I'm sorry if it came across as if we did not appreciate them. I think we are all in agreement, so lets try not to make it look like an argument (and no I'm not suggesting you were). I think everyone here would like their scripts to be fully up-to-date, and for those nasty people who exploit them (in whatever form) short have something equally nasty done to them Equally, as you point out, there is not enough time in the average day to do all the jobs we want / need to do. So, how do we best optimise out time. TotalChoice Hosting is not planning on suspending an account tomorrow, just because we have had a look at your code, and it's not 100% up-to-date. Sorry if that is how it was read. However, if a script is abused, which causes problems for other users, then we will at that time. One of the wonderful things about the family here is they always do help out. I know I have helped update several sites so far today, and some of the other family members have to. What are your suggestions for best time management, and help everyone maintain scripts in a secure and updated fashion?

Warnings get a little difficult..... If you have a totally insecure blog, and nobody decides to attack it (with comment spam or whatever) then it will not cause any problem on the server. As soon as someone starts to attack that insecure blog, it can (depending on the circumstances) start to cause problems. At that point, it is to late to warn anybody, or ask permissions. We would simply suspend it, to protect other accounts on the server, and then contact you. So, which site is going to be hit first, and most vulnerable... if only I had a crystal ball I'd be happy to say (and rich)

Look in /Skin/s1/skin_global.php You should be able to find; ><table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' background='{$ibforums->vars['img_url']}/header_tile.gif'> <tr> <td align='left'><a href='{$ibforums->base_url}' title='Board Home'><img src='{$ibforums->vars['img_url']}/logo.jpg' alt='Powered by Invision Power Board' .... <td align='right' valign='middle' background='{$ibforums->vars['img_url']}/header_tile.gif'><!--IBF.BANNER--></td> </tr> </table> You can then replace the code here for your own logo and background. Can you provide a link to the site and the logo you have uploaded?

Hi, Can you PM me the complete email - including headers, and I'll take a look. I'd say post it here - but you don't want email addresses etc being left for the email harvesters to find ...

Hi, Welcome to the family How much do you want to change the header? Just the basic icon and links? Or to customise it like the one here?

That your router is blocking the ip (or it could just be blocking the traceroute). Have a look at the firewall settings in your router.

You're welcome and welcome to the family here

The stats do not update overnight if there was a medium to high load on the server at the time they were trying to run. Hence it can sometimes be a couple of days between runs (ie. If people are doing backups overnight at the same time...). If you want the stats - open a ticket and they can be run manually. However if you're happy for them to be updated overnight next time - then it should happen automatically.

just put "unknown" in for the username and password.

Hi, A number of changes are being made as we maintain server stability due to the recent blog spamming. Please bear with us at the present time, whilst we work to ensure good reliability for all. We will update eveyone when a final solution is in place.

Hi Asherah, Welcome to the family I have responded to your ticket - but received no reply. Please contact us at the help desk, via the same ticket, so that we can follow things up with you.

well things like 70-6C-76-66 is the word "misc" if you offset the hex by 3. you can get other words by doing more complex shifts - but none would give me a sentence

Using a modified hexadecimal system I could get some words - but not the whole sentence, so I'm not sure I was on the right track - I'll have a play again later

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ ?

I speak proper English, being from England, but I can understand most American

Welcome to the forums What theme did you change? A php bulletin board?

welcome to the family If you see such issues, please open a ticket at the help desk (link at the top of the page) and we will follow things up from there. The technical support team do not constantly monitor the forum pages. I think I have corrected the issue - but would need to test it using your account details to be certain.

Hi, This will not work properly until your domain name has propagated, and you are using the domain name rather than the IP address.

welcome aboard