[pmwiki-users] how to remove vandalism from wiki
Matt Hollingsworth
mattt1138 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 18 04:56:34 CST 2007
Thanks for the info.
Point by point:
> > Interestingly enough, that does not show the changes made.
> > Some vandal went there on November 3rd and changed a buncha
> > pages. He did on some other dates too, just adding nonsense.
>
> If the wiki does not show any changes, means that it was not done
> though the wiki.
>
> Most likely a web or ftp server problem. The spammer could be
> adding these through direct/raw editing of the files.
>
> SolutionSs
>
> 1. Check the logs of the server to tell you how this was done.
Logs don't go back that far. They only go back one week.
> 2. Check the file ownerships. All these files should be owned the
> web server.
They're mostly all 777 permissions. Should I change them to something else?
> 3. What's are the .htaccess [linux] settings.
No idea. How do I check that?
> 4. Check the admin passwords. Time to change the password.
Changed.
> 5. SSH [linux]? change the port to a higher value than 22...
Don't know about this. Checking into it. I don't think I have it enabled at all.
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