Outage

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:41 am

Sorry for this morning's outage - it seems we had a little issue with a nasty little script kiddie who managed to find a bug in phpbb and repeatedly trash our themes remotely. I've since taken steps to prevent this at 3 seperate levels, so we should be OK now. I've also done the latest upgrade of the software.

I have also set EVERYONE'S themes back to the standard one, to ensure everyone can still log in. But you are able to re-select whichever theme you were using before after you log in and all should be fine.

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:44 pm

Thanks again Gaz, If the culpit is reading then i'm more then happy to come over and beat them up

stu chacks · Post by **stu chacks** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:25 pm

Though my friday joke would be falling on deaf ears this am when couldn't post.

Unfortunatley for you guys Gaz got it sorted!

Stu.

Website · Post by **coyote1980** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:28 am

Hi Gaz!

Nice to hear this is sorted! Strange how all of a sudden the themes lead to people not being able to log on. But anyways, great that everything is fine now

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:45 am

Not strange at all daniel - the themes in the DB were removed, and replaced with a reference to a hacked one (which doesn't exist) - therefore those people not on strandard themses suddenly found their user id trying to use a non existant theme, causing them not to be able to view any page after they log in, and just get an error instead...

Website · Post by **coyote1980** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:12 pm

Ah, ok, that does explain it 100% indeed

piper1st · Post by **piper1st** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:31 pm

go on yer sell Gaz!!

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:43 pm

go on yer sell Gaz!!

roughly translated means " thanks Gary, good work"

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:57 pm

I know (having been brought up by a Scots dad and an Irish mum)...