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[Illori]

which zip file are you trying to upload and where exactly are you trying to upload it?

[kat]

You ARE dearchiving the file, before uploading the contents thereof...?

You don't upload the file, as-is.

[Illori]

well you could upload the zip, then use your cpanel file manager to extract it in place overriding all files, but most people do it like you suggested and upload the extracted files.

[kat]

I just saw

Just uploading the upgrade package didn't seem to work.

and assumed he'd uploaded the archive, as-is, and nothing done else.

Some people have to be spoon-fed this stuff.

[Illori]

i was also thinking they may be trying to upload it to the package manager as well, and depending on the file they downloaded it may not work that way.

[kat]

Yeah. Sadly, guesswork makes up a lot of what we do, here.

Quite often, we guess right.

Sometimes, we don't .

[NanoSector]

EDIT: Whoops didn't know there was a second page

i was also thinking they may be trying to upload it to the package manager as well, and depending on the file they downloaded it may not work that way.

If the user doesn't have access to the forum it's pretty logical they can't upload it to the package manager, no?

I think we should have restore packages for SMF

[jiajia]

Yeah, downloaded the smf-1-1-12_upgrade.zip file, dearchived it, than uploaded it. FTP overwrote all the files, but to no avail. Have no access to admin related pages, only repair_settings.php and of course the siteground cpanel.

[NanoSector]

Yeah, downloaded the smf-1-1-12_upgrade.zip file, dearchived it, than uploaded it. FTP overwrote all the files, but to no avail. Have no access to admin related pages, only repair_settings.php and of course the siteground cpanel.

A-a-all?!
*shudders*
tell me you didn't overwrite Settings.php!!

[jiajia]

Yeah, downloaded the smf-1-1-12_upgrade.zip file, dearchived it, than uploaded it. FTP overwrote all the files, but to no avail. Have no access to admin related pages, only repair_settings.php and of course the siteground cpanel.

A-a-all?!
*shudders*
tell me you didn't overwrite Settings.php!!

Hehe no didn't do that. I edited settings.php to remove the malicious code at the top and then re-uploaded it. Sorry, should have been more specific.

[NanoSector]

Yeah, downloaded the smf-1-1-12_upgrade.zip file, dearchived it, than uploaded it. FTP overwrote all the files, but to no avail. Have no access to admin related pages, only repair_settings.php and of course the siteground cpanel.

A-a-all?!
*shudders*
tell me you didn't overwrite Settings.php!!

Hehe no didn't do that. I edited settings.php to remove the malicious code at the top and then re-uploaded it. Sorry, should have been more specific.

*phew* I was worried lol

[kat]

If you read this http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=87130.0 and you're OK with it, PM me your FTP details (URL, username, password) and I'll take a look, in case there're other files that the package doesn't have.

Could take me a while, obviously.

[JimM]

Give us a few more details.  Just saying it doesn't work doesn't give us enough to go on.

ETA:  Disregard.  I didn't read the 2nd page.  I just saw the same comment that K@ did about it nor working.

[kat]

It's gonna be an infected file, Jim, I reckon.

One of the mods that were there, perhaps?

[JimM]

It appears that the forum is in maintenance mode.  The error seems to be something to do with your blog or the integration of WordPress with SMF.

[kat]

It's as I suspected.

All the files in the custom theme directories were infected.

I've cleaned them all out.

Well, I say "All", but I've left some.

In your theme directories, some of the themes have every language file known to man, in there.

Cleaning those out's gonna take me DAYS!

Can you do me a favour?

Can you go to the "languages" directory in the default theme's directory, and delete all the languages that you don't need?

Then, I can just clean-out those that you need.

[jiajia]

It's as I suspected.

All the files in the custom theme directories were infected.

I've cleaned them all out.

Well, I say "All", but I've left some.

In your theme directories, some of the themes have every language file known to man, in there.

Cleaning those out's gonna take me DAYS!

Can you do me a favour?

Can you go to the "languages" directory in the default theme's directory, and delete all the languages that you don't need?

Then, I can just clean-out those that you need.

I'm pretty sure all we need is English.

[jiajia]

Ok so I saw what you mean, I ended up just deleting many of the themes we never use and just kept two, the default and the ds_natural theme. The default theme was loaded with obscure languages which I trimmed out but why was the language folder in the ds_natural (the boards default theme) empty?

[Illori]

by default all template files/language files are used from the default theme, so that you dont need to install/copy them to each theme that is used unless they are very different from the default.

[kat]

OK. I'm just cleaning those, now.

Gimme a while...