Our vBulletin system is under constant attack, raising cpu load and making the system very slow for legit users. The attack is a script type attack that is attempting to log in and/or create new login ids (mostly it is trying to create login ids in order to spam the site). In vBulletin, we have … Read more
I have two acount on RHC Openshift so i want install nginx one one server and vbulletin on the other server , so have combine server 1 to server two (nginx to Vbulletine) I try this configuration for nginx: #user nobody; worker_processes 1; #error_log logs/error.log; #error_log logs/error.log notice; #error_log logs/error.log info; error_log /var/lib/openshift/568adf5a0c1e66dac3000283/app-root/logs/nginx_error.log debug; pid … Read more
CompassionPit.com is a Node.js app. The CompassionPit blog is WordPress and the CompassionPit forum is VBulletin. Everything was working fine and dandy until I installed the VBseo plugin for VBulletin, which wants me to add these lines to my nginx configuration: location /forum/ { rewrite ^/forum/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last; try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/vbseo.php?$args; } location ~ … Read more
After upgrading a vBulletin installation, accessing any page tells me that files are missing–even though they exist in the filesystem. Based on other questions I found here, I have tried changing the file permissions to no avail, changing the error log directive and php.ini, and changed ownership of the files it’s trying to access. Nothing … Read more
VBulletin likes to dump SQL query and database metadata in case of query-error. I do not find it entertaining from security point of view. Is there a way to disable this and just show “something went wrong, please try again later” to the users? I tried to look for this on search-engines, old support-forums, but … Read more
I have this error message on my website: Call to undefined function hash() on line 738 in …/public_html/dbtech/dbseo/includes/class_db.php #0 …/public_html/dbtech/dbseo/includes/rewrite/thread.php(265): DBSEO_Database->generalQuery(‘\r\n\t\t\t\tSELECT *\r…’, false) #1 …/public_html/dbtech/dbseo/includes/class_core.php(2396): DBSEO_Rewrite_Thread::getInfo(Array) #2 …/public_html/dbtech/dbseo/hooks/global_complete.php(36): DBSEO::processContent(‘ #3 …/public_html/includes/functions.php(7641) : eval()’d code(3): require(‘/usr/home/admin…’) #4 …/public_html/includes/functions.php(7641): eval() #5 …/public_html/index.php(821): print_output(‘ #6 {main} Fatal error: Call to undefined function hash() on line 738 in …./dbtech/dbseo/includes/class_db.php … Read more
I would like to change to Litespeed from Apache with mod_php I installed it on a testserver Centos 7, PHP 7.1.33, MySQL 5.7.33. The vBulletin forum 4.2.5 works fine. But I’m using a script which rewrites the forum into .html sites. The main page works but when i click a link i get a 404 … Read more
When I run a couple scripts from the vBulletin software (like uninstalling a plugin) it takes forever. When monitoring the memory usage, it shows this => -/+ buffers/cache: 158 381 Swap: 255 10 245 It seems that MySQL is only using a certain amount and once it does it tries to use the swap instead? … Read more
I have Memcached configured and setup to with work with vBulletin 4.1.5 on a Gentoo Linux 32-bit Linode VPS. Memcached is started, includes/config.php is configured to use the memcache, and the site does load and operate normally; however, Memcached does not appear to be caching, or at least caching very well. All services, Apache, MySQL, … Read more
I run a linode VPS with 512MB of memory and I was wondering if a PHP accelerator or PHp cache is a must have? The point of the server is a vBulletin forum. Which one would you recommend if so? Answer protip: 99% of systems administration is trial & error no one can tell you … Read more
