Guestbook dissappeared

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:12 am

I'm running on PHP-Nuke 7.8 (yeah, I know...) and have the KISGB installed. Everything seems to work fine, but now, all sudden the Guestbook is gone. I still can go into the admin part, but if I want to view the GB, nothing can be seen.
My website is http://www.jclemens.com

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Things don't just happen. What did you change since the last time it was working? Is the module still set to active?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:22 am

Raven, I'm telling you...it just dissappeared. I was adding a couple new blocks and themes to my site. All I changed with the guestbook, was changing the view from icons to text. I've checked it after the change, and everything was fine then. 1 day later the whole GB is gone.
However, I've noticed some problems with my database since I've installed MS Analysis 2.2 - for example registered users from today don't show up in the user info block as a number, it remains on 0, also the referrer block is screwed up...got the picture?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:25 am

Restore a backup from before the problems started and start over. If the folder and files are still there then the gb is still intact.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:35 am

On my host forum (Powweb) the following message is posted:

"PHP is currently being upgraded to 4.4.2 and and 5.1.2, Zend is currently being upgraded to 2.6.0.

If you use zend and a custom php.ini:
http://kb.powweb.com/questions/297/U...Custom-php.ini

Please either download a new copy to replace your current php.ini and make your required modifications prior to upload - or make the below changes to your php.ini in place:

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2_6_0
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2_6_0
zend_optimizer.version=2.6.0
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

Replacing:
[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.10
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.10
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

If you do not use a custom php.ini, no changes are necessary."

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?threadid=61564

Can this upgrade have an effect on the GB?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:35 pm

I reinstalled the guestbook and still the GB is not showing...

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:06 pm

There known and published incompatabilities with PHP4 and PHP5. There could be issues but I am not aware of any that concern the GB. Check your error_log and see if that helps. I do not use, nor develop under, nor recommend PHP5, as of yet.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:26 pm

So, I tryed to upload the backup, reinstalled the guestbook - and still same problem.
I confirmed that I'm running on:
Os: FreeBSD
PHP: 4.4.2
MySQL: 4.1.15-log

And I read what you said - so basically I'm screwed!
So what other guestbook can I use? It's a shame, since I really like yours!

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:20 pm

Since it does not use MySQL then it's not a MySQL issue. If you're still on 4.4.2 then something else has happened. Either something you did (like adding another module or whatever) or, just possibly, something in the guestbook file is a corrupted message and is throwing everything off.

I just tried it and my guess is that there's a bad entry in the guestbook. Try this. Try renaming the kisgb.csv.php file and then create a new kisgb.csv.php file and add these 2 lines in the file.

Code:

<? Header("HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden");exit; ?>


msgid,ip,date,time,"name","email","home","pic","icq","aim","yim","msn","nation","comments","private","password"

Ftp it and change the perms to 0666. Does that work?

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:18 pm

Unfortunately this didn't fix the problem Crying or Very sad

Well, I guess I'll have to find a new Guestbook Sad

Thanks Raven!

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:24 pm

So, I was able to identify a problem:

Only unregistered users can see my guestbook. Logged in as an admin or as a registered user I can't see it.

I have to disable htaccess (renaming it) otherwise no pics are shown.

My htaccess has the following entry: PHP_FLAG magic_quotes_gpc On

I hope that you guys can help me.

http://www.jclemens.com/modules.php?name=kisgb-nuke

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:05 pm

In your Nuke admin control panel => Modules admin screen, how have you set your permissions for who can view the guestbook?

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:18 pm

The module is set to All visitors

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:39 pm

Quote:

I have to disable htaccess (renaming it) otherwise no pics are shown.

That means you are [possibly] trying to stop hot linking of images? If so, you need to set an exclusive allow for your module.

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:03 am

You are right Raven, I do not allow hot linking on my Formula 1 section of my site. So how do I make an exception for the Guestbook?
I'm sure I'm not the only one protecting his bandwidth that way Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:32 am

In your .htaccess file, use code similar to this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.jclemens.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpeg|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:29 pm

Well Raven,

I've checked if my overall htaccess file has

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.jclemens.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpeg|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC] - which it has.

Changing the KISGB htaccess file did not solve the problem either. The pics won't appear. Only without the KISGB access file the pics show up.

Any word from you, to why only unregistered users can see the guestbook?

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:16 pm

It is obvious that your pic problem lies in your .htaccess code. If you have it set to all visitors then it should work. I don't know. Comment out your .htaccess completely nd see how it behaves.