site maintenance

[NeoGen]

Hi Dave

How's the website maintenance going? Are those url-nasties putting up a fight?

The announcement doesn't allow posting replies, so I had to create a new post.

[AMDave]

Oh. Hey you are right. I should have made it a pst as well.
It was going ok, but I have run into difficulties getting the CMS back up. When I put the last bit back in, it kills the site.
There is a database id mismatch that kills the site.
It's getting to the frustration point where I might have to roll it all back from back up and do it again.

[Dirk Broer]

There is a database id mismatch that kills the site. It's getting to the frustration point where I might have to roll it all back from back up and do it again.

I'd focus on the database id mismatch, if I were you. Otherwise you end up in the same position as you are now.

[NeoGen]

We are all waiting in anxiety... is Santa Dave bringing us a brand new main page this Xmas?

[Dirk Broer]

It's spreading: FreeDC has lost it's forum (and the WCG badges! And WCG subprojects don't update within FreeDC either, at least not for me and countless others ) at the moment....

[NeoGen]

Geez... some hackers somewhere must have a problem with Distributed Computing in general...

Wonder if other teams got affected too

[Dirk Broer]

FreeDC forum still down, WCG badges do update now, but subproject scores still don't (for me, otherwise my MCM, OET and Zika scores would be much higher).

[AMDave]

I located what appear to be a number of injections in the database by scanning the database backup files, which proved tedious due to the size of the files.
Removing these in a way that does not break the forum is proving to be almost impossible due to the way that vB stores the information and the way the backup files are exported.
ITMT, due to the same vB data storage method I have not yet found the solution to restoring the last part of the CMS plugin.
The problem with the CMS (ver 4.2.2) is it is out of sync with the rest of the forum (ver 4.2.3) so ir could be the last upgrade was done with the "Forum only' pack and not the 'Suite' pack
So it is not possible for me to fix without downgrading and then re-upgrading the software with the original install files - which I don't have.
This is distressing because the last full backup I have of the forum and database is 21 Nov 2016 and there are a couple of posts after that that I'd prefer not to lose.
But if I can't figure out a way that is what we will have to do - roll back the forum to 21 Nov 2016.
I'll have to bite one of the bullets in front of me soon.

EDIT - FreeDC site is up but it looks like the base-path changed so the Forum link on the stats site is pointing at the wrong URL. Needs to be fixed to "http://www.free-dc.org/forum.php" instead of "http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forum.php"
PS - I just checked up on FreeDC forum and it is still being post-spammed by a bot.
PPS - I just perma-banned the spammer on FreeDC. I quarantined the spam.

[vaughan]

Good work Dave, your efforts are greatly appreciated both here at AMD Users and also at Free-DC.

These serial spam bots are pests.

[AMDave]

Geez... some hackers somewhere must have a problem with Distributed Computing in general...

Wonder if other teams got affected too

occasionally when I got to setiUSA it redirects me to some ad-page.
I have not checked out any others.