ILLEGAL COPY OF SMF

[Scummbuddy]

The updated Settings.php has been uploaded to my site. Thank you so far for your effort in helping me. I do appreciate it.

for ease, my page is http://lucasstyle.com/forum/index.php [nofollow]

[Joshua Dickerson]

* groundup wonders why people feel the need to type in CAPS

[Scummbuddy]

I didn't originate the thread...

[Joshua Dickerson]

I know

[Scummbuddy]

Is there something I should be looking for now that I've uploaded an appended settings.php? Something to do with the database error?

[xenovanis]

Looks you you suffer from serious corrupted sourcefiles. Have you tried uploading the /Sources folder and files again? What mods have you installed?

Does everybody gets the banned message?

[Scummbuddy]

So I reuploaded the sources folder and files like you suggested.

I tried to log in but as it is "thinking" I am redirected to a page that shows this:



and then drops me back at an "error has occured" "You were unable to login" page, where it says "sorry guest, you are banned from posting or sending personal messages on this forum." at the top of this page, I get this Notice:

Notice: Undefined index: BAN_CHECK_IP in /home/content/L/u/c/LucasStyle/html/forum/Sources/Load.php on line 490


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And to answer your other question about mods, this is my Packages folder:

Donations_11.zip   (I'm pretty sure I never actually installed this; just dl it.)
el_groupmods_10c.tar.gz
index.php
OnLineUserToday13.zip
php-4.4.0-compat.tar.gz
php-4.4.0-compat_1.tar.gz
picture_forum_view.zip
reportpm_0-2.zip
server.list
smf_1-0-10_patch.tar.gz
smf_1-0-2_update.tar.gz
smf_1-0-3_package.tar.gz
smf_1-0-4_package.tar.gz
smf_1-0-5_package.tar.gz
smf_1-0-6_package.tar.gz
smf_1-0-8_package.tar.gz
smf_patch_1-0-9_1-1-rc3-1.tar.gz
smf_patch_1.0.7_1.1-RC2-1.tar.gz
smf_patch_1.0.7_1.1-RC2-1_1.tar.gz
smf_patch_1.0.7_1.1-RC2-1_2.tar.gz


I know that most of these are self explanatory, but there are others that may not be. I sure wish I could log into my admin ability, so I could get the official names of the above files to share.

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Is there any other information that I can share that may track down my crazy problem?

[xenovanis]

I still think this is due to corrupted files/ What ftp-client are you using?

[G6™]

Have had the same issue on one site i helped on.

The error there was exactly what is said, the files didnt get uploaded and REPLACED correctly.
The permissions on some files were owned by the server, and i couldent replace them through FTP or Cpanel at all.
The solution were to contact the host, ask them to change the owner of the files, and then it worked just fine.
So check and make sure the files DO get uploaded correct, aswell as OVERWRITTEN as they should during the upgrade.
FileZilla shows if any file uploaded are bad, as it gives a note on what file and in what folder and set it to "critical transfer error".

[Scummbuddy]

I use a fairly old ws_ftp program to upload, fyi.
( Version 5.08 2000.02.23 )

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Could you be more specific as to what I am to say to GoDaddy when I say to "change the owner of the files"?

Should I remove any of the files that have a "~" on the end? (for instance settings.php~. (I'm assuming thats the backup copy made during the upgrade.

Thanks for the tip about FileZilla. I'll see about switching to that soon.

[SleePy]

well for sure remove settings.php~
As it could be viewed in a browser and we don't want that. SMF makes settings.php backups as Settings_bak.php

Just tell godaddy that the owner of the files is not your user and you can't do things with some of the files.
You could try linux server which doesn't have user problems.

[Scummbuddy]

Sadly, I am on a linux server....

And the nice man I talked to said that he talked to his 'advanced team' and that they were unable to change the name for someone on a shared server.

They ran a check through my databases and they came back stating that everything is connected fine and they mentioned that it looks to be something wrong with my simplemachines software.
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So, I'll try to reupload the forum with FileZilla and I'll report back.

[ivanjs]

Hey, guys, I'm getting the exact same copyright notice at the bottom of the page.

I upgraded from 1.07 to 1.1.2, and the upgrade went without a hitch-no errors, except this one. I've read the entire thread here on this, and none of the suggestions have helped.

I reuploaded the themes directory from both the downloaded upgrade folder, and the downloaded install folder, still getting the message. Here's a screengrab if it helps:



Strangely, the news from my previous 1.07 site shows up, but absolutely nothing else...

If it helps, here's the code from the index.template.php file about copyright:

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// Show the "Powered by" and "Valid" logos, as well as the copyright. Remember, the copyright must be somewhere!
echo '

<div id="footerarea" style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 1ex;', $context['browser']['needs_size_fix'] && !$context['browser']['is_ie6'] ? ' width: 100%;' : '', '">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[
function smfFooterHighlight(element, value)
{
element.src = smf_images_url + "/" + (value ? "h_" : "") + element.id + ".gif";
}
// ]]></script>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="28%" valign="middle" align="', !$context['right_to_left'] ? 'right' : 'left', '">
<a href="http://www.mysql.com/" target="_blank"><img id="powered-mysql" src="', $settings['images_url'], '/powered-mysql.gif" alt="', $txt['powered_by_mysql'], '" width="54" height="20" style="margin: 5px 16px;" onmouseover="smfFooterHighlight(this, true);" onmouseout="smfFooterHighlight(this, false);" /></a>
<a href="http://www.php.net/" target="_blank"><img id="powered-php" src="', $settings['images_url'], '/powered-php.gif" alt="', $txt['powered_by_php'], '" width="54" height="20" style="margin: 5px 16px;" onmouseover="smfFooterHighlight(this, true);" onmouseout="smfFooterHighlight(this, false);" /></a>
</td>
<td valign="middle" align="center" style="white-space: nowrap;">
', theme_copyright(), '
</td>
<td width="28%" valign="middle" align="', !$context['right_to_left'] ? 'left' : 'right', '">
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" target="_blank"><img id="valid-xhtml10" src="', $settings['images_url'], '/valid-xhtml10.gif" alt="', $txt['valid_xhtml'], '" width="54" height="20" style="margin: 5px 16px;" onmouseover="smfFooterHighlight(this, true);" onmouseout="smfFooterHighlight(this, false);" /></a>
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" target="_blank"><img id="valid-css" src="', $settings['images_url'], '/valid-css.gif" alt="', $txt['valid_css'], '" width="54" height="20" style="margin: 5px 16px;" onmouseover="smfFooterHighlight(this, true);" onmouseout="smfFooterHighlight(this, false);" /></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>';



After running repair_settings.php, it now looks like this:



Help?

[metallica48423]

can you verify that /Themes/default/languages and everything in it is at least 755 permissions?  Also, does this occur when using the defualt core theme or only the babylon theme?

[ivanjs]

Okay, I think I've solved it now.

The upgrade didn't upgrade my smf_themes table, even though the upgrade went without a hitch and reported no errors with updating my database.

It was still pointing to the old site's theme folder and urls. I used phpmyadmin to manually change the url for theme_url, images_url and theme_dir for each theme. It seems to be working now (www.lyzrdstomp.com/forum).

[metallica48423]

I believe that repair_settings.php should have helped you correct this, did you try the suggested url for all of the fields it listed?  In my experience most of the time those paths are correct.  It is very possible though

[Scummbuddy]

My problem somehow fixed itself. I do believe it was a faulty transfer that caused the problem. As I was trying once again to move over all the files, I noticed once that a red line (error) came and went during the transfer, in the transfer view window. When I could stop the transfer and looked back to see what it was, it was too far back to check, but I suspect it was Load.php.

After going through and reloading all of the sources folder practically one by one, my forum is back to its healthy state.

I want to thank everyone who came and gave their opinion on the problem.

And I wanted to move to FileZilla but it just won't seem to work with my computer. I get the rare error that others get, the 530 Login authentication failed; unable to connect.

Oh well, that's not for these boards. I may just try FireFtp instead.

[qtime]

I resetup the owner in the themes directory and it worked ok after that.