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So-called Geeklog "exploit" posted

Authored by: Dirk on Saturday, July 01 2006 @ 03:30 pm EDT

It certainly was sloppy QA, considering that we already had these checks in some other places. But then again, they are only there to somehow protect those from themselves that didn't follow the installation instructions.

I still refuse to call it an exploit, though. It's an "exploit" in pretty much the same way that it's an "exploit" when your PC is hacked because you didn't activate your firewall.

bye, Dirk

So-called Geeklog "exploit" posted

Authored by: andyofne on Sunday, July 02 2006 @ 02:36 am EDT

I have to admit that, at least in my case, I did not follow the instructions from day one and every time I re-installed or updated GL I did it wrong. I choose to modify the way I did the install and I paid the price for not following the directions. Quoted below is the part I ignored. I put the files in the web root and did not protect them.

[b]Basically, a Geeklog installation consists of two parts: The part that is visible "to the world" - which is everything in the public_html directory. "public_html" is a popular name for the world-accessible directory that can be found on a webserver ("htdocs" and "www" are other popular names). So if you have such a directory, just copy everything from Geeklog's public_html directory into that directory on your webserver. Then you only need to set up $_CONF['path_html'] (in config.php) to point to that directory.[/b]

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