OMG! We Has Forum!
Author: Evoroth | Date: November 29, 2007
An equal amount of thought was put into this picture.
After very little thought and probably the same amount of effort, the Forums are now open closed again due to being h4xx0red - see coments!
We’ll be adding to it as we go so if things look a bit shite at the moment, don’t worry! We’ve got some form over suggestions thing on there and much more!
It’s also a wonderful excuse for us to shamelessly plug our shop. So go do the registery thing and start posting!
What did you resize that picture with? MS Paint?
Nope, Wordpress and HTML. I couldn’t be bothered to try and do it in Phototshop and let it take an age just to trim a few pixels off.
Also, you should warn people that the forum is buggier than a big bug with a stomach bug, which has been bugged, and is pushing around little tiny buggies full of smaller bugs.
We’ve only found one…
Well bugger me!
Seriously, though, you should tell people that after they log in, they’ll need to add the “www” back in to the address, or it won’t register that they’re logged in. It’s a strange one, and like you say, a simple redirect should sort it out.
I’ll fix that once I get home.
Okily dokily. I’ve had a play with doing it with a .htaccess file in the /forum directory, which redirects everything from http://teamteabag.com/forum to http://www.teamteabag.com/forum, but it just caused an error. I’m convinced it’s something to do with the MyBB config, so maybe if we have a look at their documentation later we might find something useful.
Nope, that didn’t do the trick. However, what has fixed it is a good old fashioned Meta Refresh.
Can you say “bodge job”?
We wouldn’t have it any other way.
Well some fuck hacked it, so for the time being they’re off until we find an apt replacement for it.
They didn’t just hack TTB but everything I host.
PHP security at its finest!
You might want to remove the links from the menu bar if it isn’t going to be there.
Why don’t you just write your own using the open source Wordpress code you have as a starting point. Technology wise there isn’t much difference between a blog and a forum. Or has this been hacked as well?
Hmm, writing our own forum? It might be doable, but it’s probably just easier to use someone else’s rather than have to mess about with our own. Although it might be better integrated with Wordpress that way… Hmm…
Anyway Wordpress itself wasn’t hacked. It’s a known exploit in the MyBB code that Liam neglected to mention when we installed it… Although in his defence, you would have thought they’d have fixed such an obvious vulnerability in the time since he last used it.
To be honest though, I think if we just made sure that the index.php files weren’t writeable that would probably protect us from this specific attack again.