StormSeeker Posted February 6, 2005 Posted February 6, 2005 Hello all- I am a pseudo webmaster using TCH for close to a year with no problems. The service is great and I love the options and pricing. Today I was in the cPanel area checking out the script area and I clicked the upgrade button for phpnuke expecting a warning screen with instructions and offers for backups and are you sure questions- I was expecting too much because it just performed the upgrade. Stupid me- I am really a dork -- <don't push the red button!> After the unintentional upgrade the website is still functional, the information is still there. But I cannot access my admin account. And the modules for the site are not loaded. I have done some searching and researching on this problem but I am still unsure of what I should do to fix it. So far I gather that maybe some files need to be removed and others need to be altered with new code- but I am not sure. I am not a coder and I am not a strong PHP guy-- but I am computer-able if I understand what the problem is and I have good concise instruction. Can anyone help me with this? Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 6, 2005 Author Posted February 6, 2005 I have continued to look around and try and understand this issue. I have seen some postings on this problem but no definitive fixes... I have made a baby step of progress in trying to find the solution. I removed the following code from the admin.php- global $domainname;if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']!= $domainname AND $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] != "localhost") { echo "Access Denied"; die(); } This allowed me to get to the admin login prompt. But logging in only brought me this message- The requested URL /www2/.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Back to the drawing board.... Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 7, 2005 Author Posted February 7, 2005 I guess this issue I am having is not a big one for anybody else. The good news is that I have made another step in the right direction and got logged in as an admin. I needed to add the following line into the config.php- $admin_file = "admin"; Now I am attempting to add my modules back. Quote
TCH-RobertM Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 Hi StormSeeker, I have never played around with phpnuke so I cannot be of much help with that but hang in there I am sure someone else has seen this issue or at least might be able to assist you with your recovery. I do want to welcome you to the forums though. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 Sorry StormSeeker, I have never played with PHPNuke either. But I'd also like to welcome you to the forums. Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 7, 2005 Author Posted February 7, 2005 I seem to have everything but modules. I cannot see the blocks when accessing the website normally. The Blocks Admin shows all blocks as I had them set up before. But the Module Admin area has zero modules listed. So I guess one of my .php files is still missing some code. Any ideas? Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 7, 2005 Author Posted February 7, 2005 Hi StormSeeker, I have never played around with phpnuke so I cannot be of much help with that but hang in there I am sure someone else has seen this issue or at least might be able to assist you with your recovery. I do want to welcome you to the forums though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks- I am still plugging away. Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 7, 2005 Author Posted February 7, 2005 Sorry StormSeeker, I have never played with PHPNuke either. But I'd also like to welcome you to the forums. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 Welcome to the Family StormSeeker and your new home! Sorry to not have seen your posts before. Probbably too late, be be sure to back up your database cpanel > backup download database. Then if all elses fails and you have to statr over you can restore your database in the same place. Can't help with nuke, looked at it once, but seemed too much trouble, and went back to hand coding We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help Quote
mrkablooey Posted February 7, 2005 Posted February 7, 2005 i'm a relatively new nuke user as well (1 year) but would highly recommend a few sites to check out: nukeforums.com nukeresources.com and probably my favorite: ravenphpscripts.com there are a host of others, namely nukesecurity.com Quote
Tommy Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 I run four PHP Nuke sites and would be happy to ck it out for you.. Catch me on msn or email me at tommyguns(at)gunssquad.com..... Ck my site out at www.gunssquad.com.. (Server 53) Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 12, 2005 Author Posted February 12, 2005 I run four PHP Nuke sites and would be happy to ck it out for you.. Catch me on msn or email me at tommyguns@gunssquad.com..... Ck my site out at www.gunssquad.com.. (Server 53) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for your offer I think I will contact you- I am trying one other thing before I do. I hate to put people off before trying to do everything I know to do. I will be in touch. Quote
StormSeeker Posted February 13, 2005 Author Posted February 13, 2005 I want to publicly thank Tommy who came to help me- total stranger. He gave of his time, efforts, and talent to help a total stranger. Time that could have been spent with his family, significant other, friends, etc. He has successfully figured out and fixed what my website problems were after the upgrade. He is in my book a hero and God sent. Thank you Tommy for your help, as I said in my previous email, please don't hesitate to call me if you are ever in Dallas. Quote
TCH-Don Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 Stormseeker glad you are all set! Tommy great job Quote
Tommy Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 My Pleasure - Stormseeker is good ppl! Be glad to help anyone else that may have problems with Nuke - contact info is posted above. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 Hey Tommy, Thanks for your offers and welcome to the family. We are happy to have you here. Quote
heff66 Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 Gotta add my big thanks to Tommy for helping out another complete stranger. I found this discussion via Google and it was exactly the situation I was in. My current (and soon to be former) web hosting service was very clueless about the upgrade process and had no idea how to help me get my site back to full functionality after moving up to 7.6 from 6.8. Tommy contacted me directly and within about 20 minutes I was cooking again thanks to his sage advice. The online community never fails to amaze me. Thanks for the generous time and help. You rock! -heff Quote
Tommy Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 Thanks and again my pleasure! Well come on over to TCH good ppl here and if you ave any more PHP problems I am here to help.. Quote
TCH-Don Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 heff welcome to the forum and hopefully our family there are lots of helpful family members here Tommy rocks Quote
Tommy Posted March 10, 2005 Posted March 10, 2005 The problem for both parties is they upgraded their files but did not upgrade the SQL -- Download the latest PHP CLICK HERE do the upgrades to get you to 7.6. IE: the 6.8 to 6.9 -- then the 6.9 to 7.0 then the 7.0 to 7.1 -- until you get to the 7.6.. you have to put it in the root directory then direct your browser (while being login as ADMIN) to http://www.yoursite.com/upgrade68-69.php --- for each one.. I would personally overwrite all the files and change the config.php to your info to make sure all files are up todate.. Quote
Guest AngelBlade9 Posted April 5, 2005 Posted April 5, 2005 Wow, how many people has Tommy helped by now? Anyways, +1 to the count. Thanks a million Tommy. I'll definitely be donating to your site once I get my paypal working. Quote
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