Installation problems vague instructions

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:57 pm

Running Nuke 7.6 patch 3.2 (there is NO specified version of Sentinel)

I have been fighting with the Nuke Sentinel installation for a few hours now and I'm about ready to snap!

First of all, I have found NO documentation on what version of Sentinel to use with what version of Nuke. Nuke version this, patch version that, script this...there's so many possible versions of Nuke, it is ridiculous. I scoured the downloads section here at ravens and it is very di-organized IMO.

So, insterad of going thur this site's downloads, I went to the source, nukescripts and found a version that simply says NukeSentinel™ 2.4.2pl4 70-79 ...which I installed.

The mainfile.php instructions for changing code are no way near what I have in my mainfile.php.

This code:

Code:

if (defined('FORUM_ADMIN')) {


   @require_once("../../../config.php");


   @require_once("../../../db/db.php");


   @require_once("../../../includes/sql_layer.php");


   if (file_exists("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php")) { @include_once("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php"); }


   @require_once("../../../includes/ipban.php");


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_head.php")) { @include_once("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_head.php"); }


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_header.php")) { @include_once("../../../includes/custom_files/custom_header.php"); }


} elseif (defined('INSIDE_MOD')) {


   @require_once("../../config.php");


   @require_once("../../db/db.php");


   @require_once("../../includes/sql_layer.php");


   if (file_exists("../../includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php")) { @include_once("../../includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php"); }


   @require_once("../../includes/ipban.php");


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("../../includes/custom_files/custom_head.php")) { @include_once("../../includes/custom_files/custom_head.php"); }


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("../../includes/custom_files/custom_header.php")) { @include_once("../../includes/custom_files/custom_header.php"); }


} else {


   @require_once("config.php");


   @require_once("db/db.php");


   @require_once("includes/sql_layer.php");


   if (file_exists("includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php")) { @include_once("includes/custom_files/custom_mainfile.php"); }


   @require_once("includes/ipban.php");


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("includes/custom_files/custom_head.php")) { @include_once("includes/custom_files/custom_head.php"); }


   if (defined('NUKE_HEADER') && file_exists("includes/custom_files/custom_header.php")) { @include_once("includes/custom_files/custom_header.php"); }


}

Does not even exist in my Nuke 7.8/3.2 patched mainfile.php.

Neither does this code:

Code:

$queryString = strtolower($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);


if (stripos_clone($queryString,'%20union%20') OR stripos_clone($queryString,'/*') OR stripos_clone($queryString,'*/union/*') OR stripos_clone($queryString,'c2nyaxb0')) {


header("Location: index.php");


die();

both of which require changes by sentinel to be installed correctly.
It's obvious, that my mainfile.php is not setup correctly, regardless, I am not an idiot, but the installation instructions included with Nuke sentinel are in NO way user-friendly.

I'd appreciate some help if I haven't already ranted enough to T most of you off.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

I understand your frustration, but I have to ask: where did you look for information?

Generally, the documentation in the readme and included installation docs are sufficient. If not, there is additional documentation in the Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!.

The download pretty clearly specifies which versions of PHP-Nuke with what versions of NukeSentinel. The developers of NukeSentinel clearly have no way to control the number of versions of Nuke, nor of the patches. Generally, it's best to use the latest patch and the latest version of NukeSentinel. Unfortunately, it's NOT always best to use the latest version of PHP-Nuke.

There were multiple versions of the 3.1 patch, which caused confusion on the mainfile installation. This was documented in a news article, forum postings or both here at RavenPHPScripts. This should be sufficient for a 7.8 / 3.2 patch, but, as is also heavily documented here, there are serious security issues that even NukeSentinel cannot protect in versions 7.7 and higher.

So, the problem isn't that the installation instructions aren't user-friendly (which is subjective term), it's that changes were made after NukeSentinel was released that conflict with the installation instructions.

If this is a new installation, I would highly recommend using a package like RavenNuke, which has already been patched and already includes NukeSentinel and many other important and commonly used addons.