ubergal

oops, that was me.

Geez, just trying to post this reply, I had to request my password. Sheesh. I just purchased a new account and got the gobildigook username. My other account, which I purchased a few years ago, came with a sensible username - thank god. I know that security is a concern, but could you not let people create their own usernames as you do for passwords? I have had trouble in the past with trying to access a site to make changes from a different computer, and not being able to gain access because I couldn't remember the gobildigook username. Talk about maddenning! I think this new system is likely to cause many upsets, and, it seems to me, that a simple solution would be to let the user choose their own username. To be honest with you, if I had known that the "policy" had changed since my first account, I might have chosen to go with the other hosting provider I was considering. That might sound drastic, even though I know you're doing it for our own safety, but the experience of not being able to access my own site was so intensely negative that I want to avoid it at all costs. Well, that's my rant for the day.

Yay! It worked! Thanks for that. Ummmmm.... Now there's a new problem though. (You thought this would be easy, didn't you? ha ha ) When trying to access the new board, I get a page with this message: message_die() was called multiple times. This isn't supposed to happen. Was message_die() used in page_tail.php? Waddaya think? ü

Thank you. Okay, I did all of that and now get the following error: Error SQL-query: -- -- Dumping data for table `phpbb_banlist` -- -- -- Dumping data for table `phpbb_categories` -- INSERT INTO `phpbb_categories` VALUES ( 2, 'übergal''s domain', 20 ) MySQL said: #1062 - Duplicate entry '2' for key 1 Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/common.lib.php on line 685 THERE is a "Browse" button at the bottom of this which leads to the following: Error SQL-query: SELECT * FROM WHERE LIKE 'config_id' MySQL said: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE LIKE 'config_id'' at line 1 :/ Me not knowing what it's talking about again. Thanks for all your help! ü

Hi. I followed your instructions all the way through, but ended up getting an error. The error page had 2 red boxes. The second one said: "MySQL said: ? #1050 - Table 'phpbb_auth_access' already exists" Above that in the first box was some "SQL-query" information and then the following: -- -- Table structure for table `phpbb_auth_access` -- CREATE TABLE `phpbb_auth_access` ( `group_id` mediumint( 8 ) NOT NULL default '0', `forum_id` smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', `auth_view` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_read` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_post` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_reply` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_edit` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_delete` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_sticky` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_announce` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_vote` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_pollcreate` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_attachments` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', `auth_mod` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0', KEY `group_id` ( `group_id` ) , KEY `forum_id` ( `forum_id` ) ) TYPE = MYISAM I'm in territory I know nothing about here. Do you know why I got this error and how I might fix it? Thank you. übergal

Awstats Authenticated Users I like this new feature. It is showing that I have "Other logins (and/or anonymous users)" Is this is people who have hacked into my password protected area, or is it just people who have visited my site at all? (for example the ones who just visit the free area?) Is there a way to track what pages an authenticated user (ie. member or hacker) has visited? Thanks. übergal

I also get the Authorization Required page - when people try to log in to my members page with an invalid password. Here's what they see: < Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required. Additionally, a 302 Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. > I did make a new 401.shtml page, but you can only see what it says if you view source. What I would like to do now is redirect the attemped theives to another website, and keep that within the frames of my site. I tried doing a redirect of the 401 page, but it didn't seem to do anything at all. Any suggestions? übergal

Hmm, okay... As you can probably tell, I'm a newbie to all of this. Let's see if I even know what I'm talking about... I'm assuming that "hotlinking" means someone is providing a link directly to, say, an image or a member zone page. Thinking about it logically, the usr/psswd login popup should keep that sort of thing from working in the member zone, right? Anything outside of the member zone I could use the Cpanel hotlink protection. Password "bombardment" protection and user tracking sound more complicated - for someone who doesn't know how to program that kind of thing. I guess I'm looking for something I can easily "plug in". Thanks for the helpful hints you guys have provided. übergal

Hello, I am looking for a few of things. I have a password protected member zone and would like to: 1) protect images & pages from hotlinking or otherwise being "stolen" 2) prevent password "attacks" 3) track what each user is looking at/downloading Verotel handles payment and member/password creation - but they don't provide any of these extras. I'd appreciate if someone could steer me in the right direction. (free scripts would be great, but any info is welcome) Thanks übergal