Boonetown

I'm getting this error when accessing my site: boonetown.com Error: 0 - PDO Connection Error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client A little history and it's the short story... My website is/was a Joomla 2.5 RocketTheme site. I developed a RocketTheme 3.2 website for a new client as a sub folder to my website (and it's still working) boonetown.com/fresco. After all the development I thought I'd would update Joomla before moving it to the clients hosting site so I ran the Update Feature in the Joomla backend. Everthing worked and looked good except it broke my site. My site just came up as a blank page, however I could get into the Administrator backend. No one at RocketTheme had an answer so I decided to restore from backup but that did not work. Same thing blank site. So then I decided to upgrade my site from 2.5. to 3.2 and that is where this error first appeared. I can't find much info on this error that is related to what happened during a upgrade. Well back to the drawing board. I deleted my database and recreated it. I confirmed that it was gone and the recreated database had no data in it. I then installed a fresh new installation of Joomla 3.2 and the RocketTheme just like I've done in the past using their Rocket Launcher. And wouldn't you know it, I'm getting the same error as above. I'm at my wits end here. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Well, I was just wondering if any new other than htaccess would be out there. Either way it will be a lot of work to maintain a deny or allow list. I guess I can't get away with being lazy on this one. Thanks Alex

Is there a simple way to limit access to a website...for instance I don't want any foreign countries to be able to view or have access to the content. The website does not have any reason to be accessible from outside our country. This would also help stop any hacker attempts from happening. Thanks

Hello, I've been running a Joomla site and had installed a componet called Seyret. I have since uninstalled it and now I am not able to delete the folders and its subfolders using either ftp or file manager in cpanel. Is there another way to get rid of these folders? With ftp I get the error; 550 Can't remove directory Permission denied. With cpanel FM they just reappear after deleting them. Thanks Boone

Just in case anyone else is wondering. I've purchased and successfully install ezdatabase. It's functioning well and now all I need to do is customize it for my use. Thanks TCH for the help.

The ezdatabase uses MySQL. It is a template driven front end that is configurable to my own website. I want to build my own "application" for my customers. This seems like just what I need but I don't know if it will install properly on my TCH hosted site. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with the install on a TCH site before I spend the $60. I am not a programmer (eg perl, PHP) but I can modify templates and html etc. Thanks

Has anyone successfully installed and is using ezdatabase? http://www.ezdatabase.org/ I'm interested in it but not sure if I can get it installed or not. I don't want to pay for it if I can't install it. Thanks, Boonetown

David, thanks. That is exactly what I was wondering. I'll be switching over to another guestbook after June. I found one that looks pretty good. Has anyone used Gbook by PHPJunkyard? It also has a flooding mode as well as anti-spam.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I'm using the Viper Guestbook from the Fantastico scripts. I did not know, at the time, that Viper was vunerable to spam and unfortuanately I'm to far into it to back out and use a different guest book or other option. I've just looked at Capatcha and Akismet as per your suggestion and don't know a way of incorporating either into the Viper Guestbook. Unless there is a way to transfer all entries from Viper to another guestbook that supports anti-spam I will be forced to block IP addresses for the time being. My guestbook will only be used during the months of April thru June so at the end of June I can look into something different. My original question does seem to be unanswered. Am I effectively blocking the whole country of South Korea if I block an IP address that is the last hop before entering the USA? Thanks again.

Can someone enlighten me on the extent of the IP address blocking when set in Cpanel. Here's my situation. My guestbook for my website is being filled by some people in South Korea (SK) with free ring tone entries. Every entry has a different IP address to it but all originate from SK. Instead of blocking each IP address, which could keep me busy for sometime, I have blocked an IP address that I believe is the entry point for all traffic from SK. I did a trace route and found one IP address that was common in all traces. This IP address is the hop just before entering the USA. Have I shut off the whole country of SK, or at least a large part of it? I don't mind that I have shut out SK and I'll only block long enough for them to get the idea that they are wasting their time. Thx