Anyone know how to uninstall Strongbox?

[VictoriaXXX]

My host server crashed and they put my site on a different server...now no one can login through Strongbox.

What can I do to remove SB without making a mess? Or do I just call ccbill and ask em to reinstall their stuff?


Oh I email Ray this morning but he hasn't got back...and you can't post on his website forum cause it doesn't work.

[Simon]

If you have a copy of your pre-Strongboxxx .htaccess file, all you need to do is rename the one you're using now to something else and put your old .htaccess file back for now. That will put you back on your old login method.

(Note: I'm just a user, so please check with Ray for what to do to fix the real problem.)

[VictoriaXXX]

Hey! Cool I appreciate you just posting as I can't seem to get help from anyone today lol


Ok I found my last .htaccess ... but I'm not sure about one line in it...is that have to do with strongbox?


is a folder in the cgi-bin



In my memembers area there is no htaccess but there is a file called [

So do I just put the htaccess in the memebers folder?

[emmanuelle]

You should seriously consider editing this post and taking those details private. Posting the full server path to your password file isn't a wise idea.

(Trev was too lazy to post so I did)

[Trev]

And you should contact ccbill to change it.

[VictoriaXXX]

Hi is this the server path?


or is this the server path:
I changed the username ...that not real ofcourse

is there something else in there ...that I should worry about?

[emmanuelle]

6SXGpe...... you should especially be worried about. If it's too late to edit, try contacting an admin to change things.
You're inviting trouble by leaving it up there I'm afraid

[Cleo]

It will look something like this one
/home/agz7h3/public_html/cgi-bin/

It will be the server path to the CCBill password file.

[VictoriaXXX]

oky dokie I edited it

[VictoriaXXX]

Geeze I can't tell you how pissed I am ! server crashes then I gotta sit here waiting for everyone to relpy to emails....bah!

And then I'm runnin both paycom and ccbill so I goota contact both of them I guess ?

ahhhh

[Cleo]

Both write to the same password file and unless they aren't working I don't see why you would need to contact them. Bigger issue is using just htaccess to protect your member's are it will not be long before the password trader sites start giving out passwords.

[VictoriaXXX]

I got maybe 30 attacks from when I started the site in june 05...not a lot right lol...no one wants to steal pics of me!

But yes SB works...it wouldn't be a prob but no one can login right now.

[Trev]

Since today is a Holiday, I would try to get in touch with the Strongbox people tomorrow. You posted your pw folder on a public forum. It wasn't up for long and the views were few, but I tend to err on the side of caution and would have ccbill change it, but it's up to you.

[VictoriaXXX]

Will do thanks for the help for a noob I hope Ray is in

[VictoriaXXX]

Hi one question how come when I look in members area I don't see an htacccess file but when I try to upload one...it asks me if I want to overwrite the existing file?

[Toby]

On most servers .htaccess and other files that start with a period are hidden files.

[VictoriaXXX]

Originally Posted by Toby

On most servers .htaccess and other files that start with a period are hidden files.

Ok understood , so if I upload/overwright my htaccess into the members area it should allow the popup login box now? Instead of redirecting to the sblogin? Or no?


Thanks for the reply

[VictoriaXXX]

Hi goodmorning everyone thanks for the help last night , I learned a lot and got it to work. Thanks for pointing those things out that I shouldn't do

[Simon]

If you do it that way you won't have your Strongboxxx htaccess file anymore. I'm not sure if you'll need it, and maybe you have a backup of it (doesn't sound like it), but doing it that way will delete the one that's there now. A better way is to rename the one that's on the server now first and then upload the one you have on your computer.

If you can't see the .htaccess file, you may need to change some setting(s) on your ftp program to "show invisibles" or something like that. Otherwise you can ask your server techs to swap the files for you. Just upload the file as htaccess_to_use and then they can do the swap for, changing the current htaccess file to htaccess_SB. Those names are just examples, but I hope you get what I mean.

And hopefully Ray will get back to you soon.

[VictoriaXXX]

Originally Posted by Simon

If you do it that way you won't have your Strongboxxx htaccess file anymore. I'm not sure if you'll need it, and maybe you have a backup of it (doesn't sound like it), but doing it that way will delete the one that's there now. A better way is to rename the one that's on the server now first and then upload the one you have on your computer.

If you can't see the .htaccess file, you may need to change some setting(s) on your ftp program to "show invisibles" or something like that. Otherwise you can ask your server techs to swap the files for you. Just upload the file as htaccess_to_use and then they can do the swap for, changing the current htaccess file to htaccess_SB. Those names are just examples, but I hope you get what I mean.

And hopefully Ray will get back to you soon.

Hey Simon, I'm not that dumb lol ...I renamed it...just like you said in the first place


I couldn't see the .htaccess on that space but funny I looked in on one of my other sites on the same host and I can see the .htaccess using the same ftp. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on with that.

Since I couldbn't see it throught the ftp I went through the cpanel file manager and worked on it there. I didn't delete or over write anything just named the "_old" back to the main file and the main to sb. Hopefully when Ray has time I'm sure he'll look at it. I just don't want any bastards canceling or whatever because they can't login for a day or two.


Oh and for whomever is reading this this has nothing to do with Strongbox or Ray lol his stuff works great I just needed to get this working.

[raymor]

I'm going through my email now and I guess I'm soon to find one from
you and reply to that as well, but mostly in case someone finds this post
later I figured I'd reply here as well.

Simon told you exactly right. When we install Strongbox we rename your old
.htaccess file to .htaccess_bak. To disable Strongbox temporarily you can
just rename .htaccess to .htaccess_sb and .htaccess_bak to .htaccess.
If your FTP isn't showing "hidden" files, which start with a dot, you can normally
correct that using the ettings in your FTP client. In WS-FTP I believe the
setting is called "remote file mask" and you want to set it to "-al".
To re-enable Strongbox just reverse the renaming procedure.

If your host broke Strongbox during the move that's almost always because
they failed to preserve the file permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown).
If they simply copied the files over without using any method to preserve
these important attributes they probably broke a lot of your scripts, including
your processor's script, so there's a good chance that new people are
unable to sing up to your site and that old expiring subscriptions aren't being
removed properly. If possible have your host copy the site over again
properly, probably using "tar" to preserve permissions and ownership.
Here's a page with step by step instructions on how to move a site without
breaking PHP and CGI scripts:
http://bettercgi.com/strongbox/manual/move_server.html

VictoriaXXX, you said you had some kind of trouble with my forum.
What was the problem, exactly, please? It does seem to be generally working
OK since other people have been posting.

[VictoriaXXX]

Originally Posted by raymor

I'm going through my email now and I guess I'm soon to find one from
you and reply to that as well, but mostly in case someone finds this post
later I figured I'd reply here as well.

Simon told you exactly right. When we install Strongbox we rename your old
.htaccess file to .htaccess_bak. To disable Strongbox temporarily you can
just rename .htaccess to .htaccess_sb and .htaccess_bak to .htaccess.
If your FTP isn't showing "hidden" files, which start with a dot, you can normally
correct that using the ettings in your FTP client. In WS-FTP I believe the
setting is called "remote file mask" and you want to set it to "-al".
To re-enable Strongbox just reverse the renaming procedure.

If your host broke Strongbox during the move that's almost always because
they failed to preserve the file permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown).
If they simply copied the files over without using any method to preserve
these important attributes they probably broke a lot of your scripts, including
your processor's script, so there's a good chance that new people are
unable to sing up to your site and that old expiring subscriptions aren't being
removed properly. If possible have your host copy the site over again
properly, probably using "tar" to preserve permissions and ownership.
Here's a page with step by step instructions on how to move a site without
breaking PHP and CGI scripts:
http://bettercgi.com/strongbox/manual/move_server.html

VictoriaXXX, you said you had some kind of trouble with my forum.
What was the problem, exactly, please? It does seem to be generally working
OK since other people have been posting.

Your forum: I joined then tried to post and I can't this is the result:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/raymor/domains/bettercgi.com/public_html/forum/ban_words_no_post.php on line 4


My host said they can't help because they don't know anything about strongbox .....so please check your mail I gave you all the info you need and if you can check it out it...it'd be nice of you.

Thanks

[raymor]

Originally Posted by VictoriaXXX

Your forum: I joined then tried to post and I can't this is the result:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/raymor/domains/bettercgi.com/public_html/forum/ban_words_no_post.php on line 4

Thanks for those details. I've fixed that.
I've also emailed you regarding what needs to be done to get your site
working on the new server like it was on the old. Let me know if I can be
of any further assistance.