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Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:23 am

Weirdwolf at the 2005 forums says that he's worked with PostNuke, before. He said you should just need to download the program, to get a new config.php, and change the settings to match the server settings.

Sorry, I know nothing about this. Just passing along, what I've been told.

Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:28 am

Man I am glad to see you guys....pleases do what you can to get it all back....all day yestreday I was like WTF!!!...stupid little hackers...someone hacked TFans too, but it wasnt this bad...

Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:46 am

I clicked on the link when the hacker page came up and it went to a forum in some crazy language like russian or something. Don't those people have anything better to do than mess with this site? At least Devs got rid of their stupid webpage and retarded music.

Unfortunately I know nothing about webpages... I'm sure we'll be able to find someone in the TF community who can help

Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:31 pm

well the way i see it we have the most capable people on the matter, and not to make fun of the community here but in some way we are all nerds in some aspect, someone here is bound to have the knowledge to unlock this matrix and light the darkest hour here at trasntopia, i believe in that and it helps keep me going.

Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:15 pm

I just noticed today that back on July 25, a guy tried to get in my site, but couldn't but left a bunch of crazy messages in my guestbook.....I have since deleted them today because they were just jibberish, but I did decide to do a back trace on his IP address and found out who the bastard was, and I posted his info on the page. See for yourself!

http://www.freewebs.com/sodawilly/sodawillysrantsnraves.htm

Hope everything gets worked out ok,

-Gregg

Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:40 pm

As long as there are websites on the internet, there will be little punk computer geek bastards with no friends living in their parents basement using terms like "Haxx0rz" who get their jollies off by hacking message boards just to show other little punk computer geek bastards how cool they think they really are, who will try to hack them. :roll:

It sucks! I wish I knew more about working a website but I don't. But if there's any other way to help out, let me know.

And TFM, don't give up. It's just a setback. Everyone here supports this site and doesn't want to see it go.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:15 pm

Lobo wrote:As long as there are websites on the internet, there will be little punk computer geek bastards with no friends living in their parents basement using terms like "Haxx0rz" who get their jollies off by hacking message boards just to show other little punk computer geek bastards how cool they think they really are, who will try to hack them.

It sucks! I wish I knew more about working a website but I don't. But if there's any other way to help out, let me know.

And TFM, don't give up. It's just a setback. Everyone here supports this site and doesn't want to see it go.

Don't worry about me...I was just venting...

TFM

Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:32 pm

Lobo wrote: But if there's any other way to help out, let me know.

Yea, make a decepticon version of Perceptor (Hacker) and post pictures of your collection dismembering him :twisted:

Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:33 pm

Dev download a copy of Postnuke from thier website and extract the config file. Then open that file with wordpad and edit the following feilds.

$pnconfig['dbtype'] = 'mysql'; - assumeing your useing a mysql database leave this one alone
$pnconfig['dbtabletype'] = 'MyISAM'; - leave this alone as well
$pnconfig['dbhost'] = 'localhost'; - Leave this one as it is as well
$pnconfig['dbuname'] = ''; - This one should be the Username you use to log into the database
$pnconfig['dbpass'] = ''; - This one is the password to log into the database
$pnconfig['dbname'] = 'Phoenix'; - This one should be the actual database name
$pnconfig['system'] = '0'; Not sure if the site is hosted on a linux/unix based server or a windows based server, but if its linux=0 and windows=1

The rest can probably be left alone.

$pnconfig['prefix'] = 'pn';
$pnconfig['encoded'] = '1';
$pnconfig['pconnect'] = '0';
$pnconfig['temp'] = 'pnTemp';

Once you've edited those lines with the info on your database and server go ahead and save it and upload the config.php file on to the website. It should overwrite the hacked file and fix things a bit.

Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:51 pm

He he... sometimes it's good to know computer nerds. Other times, I'm sure it'd be handier to be a computer nerd...

AceBaur Prime wrote:I clicked on the link when the hacker page came up and it went to a forum in some crazy language like russian or something.

Like I said, Turkish. The flag was a giveaway, along with the fact that a couple of the hackers had 'turk' in their names...

Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:25 pm

tentagil wrote:Dev download a copy of Postnuke from thier website and extract the config file. Then open that file with wordpad and edit the following feilds.

Thanks for your help man. I put in all of my information and got nothing. Then I tried putting in what I thought Pepie's info was and that didn't work either. II'll keep trying though

Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:50 pm

Damn, I'm guessing no word from Pepie yet either?

I mean I know that you could fix it by installing a new copy of Postnuke on top of whats already there, but I'm not sure how much that might break other things. And you'd still need to know the proper info to set the config file to access the database. Without that info and without being able to see the actual file structure and such I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point.

Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:57 am

This sucks monkeyballs

Ofcourse i will help! Not gunna let my old buddies leave in utter frustation.

But.. cant even look at the files.. my FTP account doesnt work, pls send the needed info to me Dev/TFM and i will look into it asap.

Allso, information needed for the databse isnt bad either.. so i can look into it.
Do you have backups of the database btw ?

Cheers!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:09 am

Say you luv me :lol:

Seems stable atm.. i'll tell TFm and Dev the juice via mail.

Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:04 am

wow thanks pepie your much more then just a pritty face

News Credits: 4 · Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:45 am

Pepie wrote:Say you luv me

Seems stable atm.. i'll tell TFm and Dev the juice via mail.

I Luv you.

3 cheers for Pepie

Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:19 am

HAHAAA Victory is ours! Great work Pepie!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:06 am

Pepie wrote:Say you luv me

Seems stable atm.. i'll tell TFm and Dev the juice via mail.

ME LUV YOU PEPIE!

Pepie, you saved our asses yet agian! Thank you so much for your help, I was very distraght over what happened. If I had made the proper backups like I said I was going to a while back, I could have fixed this thing right away. I've done so now, and I've saved more than one copy of the config file.

I'd like to thank everyone that helped out with this problem, you've all been incredible!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:23 pm

Pepie...

you

!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:27 pm

We Luv you Pepie. So what exactly did they jack with other then the Config file?

Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:18 pm

We lurv you, Pepie!

Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:54 pm

We Luv You Pepie!

We're not worthy, we're not worthy!!!!!! (said while kneeling, hands in the air praising all that is holy in transformer websitedom!)

Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:14 pm

Thanks i guess

Ramrider ur imba !
All good efforts aside, was easy if you know where to look rly.. i'll mostly just **** around a bit end its solved eventually.. its just like lego.

Dev and jaf know whats up now and if it should happen again im sure they are faster then me

And for the hell of it, running a fresh backup myself too, computer has been downloading all night allready