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you go find whatever portal system/MOD you want for phpbb3. then download it, then read the instructions for installing it.

each one could have different ways to install.


robert

this is a problem with how your host has your account setup.
you have made too many connections to the database.

you will need to contact them about it.

robert

I think some of you are getting confused here.

This "hack" has only affected phpbb.com as far as anyone knows.

It can only affect phpbb3 boards that are on the same server with a version of phplist that is not up to date.

from what I have read here, the only thing the hacker did was to gather the ...

well, your board seems quite fast to me.
you don't have enough members to be overloading the server.

and for all the problems that godaddy has, it seems to be running your board and site very well.

can you be more specific about what the problem is?

what do you mean by "slow" and exactly when ...

where are you putting that code?
wherever it is, put it back to original and
then, in your overall_header.html file simply replace
<a href="{U_SITE_INDEX}" title=" Home"> Home</a>
with:
<a href="./" title=" Home"> Home</a>
if that doesn't work, try this:
<a href="../" title=" Home"> Home</a>

be ...

Anything you keep inside the web root (or document root) you would do well to consider public. Exposed source code in config.php exposes your database credentials... we can see here how that turns out.

Thanks for the quick replies.
I figured that was why you asked.

Just fyi, the current ...

can we have a link to your board please. the one in your sig is not working.

we need to be able to test so we can see where the redirect is happening etc.

create a test user accound and post the username/password . you can delete the account after we have solved your problem.

robert

the answer to your question is no.

each of those lines is basically a range of IPs.

once again. blocking/banning via IP is a complete waste of time because the spammers just use proxies and /or get a new IP everytime they go online.


robert

first try this;

go to your config.php file

change the database type from mysqli to simply mysql

see what happens.

robert

user9375 wrote:I should’ve mention that our existing site and phpbb are on different platforms and hosted separately. The only way to communicate is HTTP message.

that makes it even harder to do. I am not sure how you would accomplish this.


robert