Back! Again

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:34 am

Woohoo!

I just wasted a good hunk of a day, but I got the damn Swamp running again.

I'm not really sure what went wrong, but somehow things got corrupted. I had to restore the site from a backup. That then produced a different error, but creating a new DB account and then deleting the phpbb cache directory seems to have done the trick.

I hope this doesn't continue to fail regularly...

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:51 am

Nice work. Again. Thanks Dave.

It's only one failure, right? The other two times it was shutdowns by the host company, iirc.

(And didn't I warn y'all mfers about talking all that shit about the russians?)

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:51 am

Is there anything we can do as a group here? Is it a Phpbb thing or an ASO thing? Surely we can move the site to a company that's a little easier to work with. I have no tech background but am willing to help with whatever I can.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:25 am

howard wrote:Nice work. Again. Thanks Dave.

It's only one failure, right? The other two times it was shutdowns by the host company, iirc.

(And didn't I warn y'all mfers about talking all that shit about the russians?)

I don't think they shut us down this time. We didn't have any support tickets this time. I did find a spamreport file on the site that I guess they created that indicated that we had another infected file that had sent some spam a couple of days ago. I deleted that file. But I don't think they shut us down for that.

However, whatever tool is putting infected files on our site may have corrupted one of the files we actually need. I really don't know how to keep that from happening short of paying some security expert to audit our site.

One thing I'd like to do is update our phpbb again. We are one minor version behind. I might do that one evening here while all y'all are asleep.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:16 am

That is what I meant, this time, yesterday, was the only failure/bug, whereas ASO cut off the lights two previous times, once last week and once about two months ago. And wasn't there another time about two years ago ASO changed something that resulted in a short outage?

Pretty good record, only one software/bug related failure in recent years. Especially with the updates you've installed. You are doing a great job, we all appreciate it.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:23 am

we never sleep!

seriously though, do we another donation cycle?

Post by **brian** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:36 am

degenerasian wrote:we never sleep!

seriously though, do we another donation cycle?

We have some money in the account if we need it, but sounds like for now the best use would be to figure out a way to buy Dave a beer.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:38 am

I just hope I score higher in Jerloma's rankings this year. Fingers crossed!

elflaco · Post by **elflaco** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:49 am

at least you were ranked.

great job! just in time too.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:07 am

Time for another phpbb upgrade?

Been a few years since we got this bad boy.

Post by **brian** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:18 am

Rush2112 wrote:Time for another phpbb upgrade?

Been a few years since we got this bad boy.

Dave did a major upgrade recently. We're only a minor version behind, so it's a little more trivial to upgrade at this point. Hopefully that resolves whatever the issue is.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:29 am

brian wrote:
Rush2112 wrote:Time for another phpbb upgrade?

Been a few years since we got this bad boy.
Dave did a major upgrade recently. We're only a minor version behind, so it's a little more trivial to upgrade at this point. Hopefully that resolves whatever the issue is.

Yeah, we're at 3.1.8 and the current is 3.1.9. I actually tried to do the update while it was down today, but it wasn't going to work until I got the site working again.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:37 am

brian wrote:
Rush2112 wrote:Time for another phpbb upgrade?

Been a few years since we got this bad boy.
Dave did a major upgrade recently. We're only a minor version behind, so it's a little more trivial to upgrade at this point. Hopefully that resolves whatever the issue is.

Right on. Must have missed that, but I'm American, I'm not supposed to be paying attention.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 11:00 am

Merci beaucoup, Shirlier

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:39 pm

Damn Russians.

Thanks for getting it back up. Again.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:50 am

Testing, testing.

For those who didn't see it, we were getting an error when you tried to post a message.

It seems that one of our php files had its permissions changed such that it couldn't be read. Something is still fucking with our site.

I fixed it, but this will probably happen again...

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:00 am

thanks

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:02 am

Post by **brian** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:05 am

Dave fixed it again.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:25 am

brian wrote:Dave fixed it again.

He's not to bad for a Trump supporter.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:49 am

Test from Spain...

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:04 am

Thanks Dave.

Checked in a couple of times yesterday, and thought the place was especially dead for a Sunday. No wonder.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 7:46 am

OK, this is getting really old. I have fixed it again. Someone should have emailed me it was down!

I've been traveling, so I haven't had a lot of time to check the Swamp or Facebook. When I saw the Swamp was down again yesterday, I tried to fix it, but I've been having serious problems with my laptop since I had to update to the Windows 10 anniversary update. It takes forever to do anything now, and I simply didn't have the time. I'm back in the states again now, but about to be in the car for 2-3 days, so if it happens again, I may not be able to fix it.

Once I'm back to regular life, I'm going to take some time with Brian and Sabo to show them how to fix the issue.

I'm also going to open a ticket with ASO to see if they can help me track down who/what is changing our file permissions.

Shirley out.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:09 am

Thanks, Shirley!

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:16 am

Thanks man! Sorry you have to continually do this.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:25 am

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:45 am

Every swamper owes dave a few beers.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:07 am

Thanks Dave!

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:35 am

thanks Dave

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:01 pm

Thanks Dave. I was really missing all of you.

Moreta · Post by **Moreta** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:46 am

Dave, you're a hero.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:07 pm

This time I fixed it on my iPhone while driving (riding) on I-64 just east of Lexington. Hey AB!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:10 pm

This is like a really annoying boss fight for you, right?

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:31 pm

Curse of the chubby Chinese beach volleyball player.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:10 pm

Phineas J. Whoopie (Dave) you're the greatest!

(Anyone get that reference from memory?)
(I mean, besides Howard.)

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:25 pm

well, gee san carlos. Other folks thought the 21st Century would bring us flying cars. I'm waiting for my 3DBB.

Post by **Shirley** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:50 pm

The fucking site is back yet again. I thought the whole html directory had been deleted this time, but it turns out it was just file permissions again. Permissions on the root dir.

I fixed those.

Also, I'm currently chat with ASO support. He ran a scan of the site and found some trojan horse files in old places - trash and old frog@sportsfrog.com email files. I deleted those.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Aug 14, 2016 10:18 pm

I just spent some time searching through every file on the site and fixing a number of files that had had trojan horse code injected in them. There were a few purely trojan horse files as well (files that weren't part of phpbb). There were more infected files than I realized - and ASO's scans hadn't found them all.

I've learned my lesson about declaring any sort of victory, but I have some hope now. I think I've actually eradicated this thing from our files. Right now. I hope to hell he/she/it doesn't have an easy way back in to start this all over again.

If you see it down, or giving any sort of errors, let me know via email. It's daveirwin, plus the number 1, at Google's mail service.

Fuckers

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:24 am

Testing with brand new phpbb...

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:07 am

Working now. about 10 minutes ago it said "no board available".

Finger crossed.