The Rebel Faction

I was reading the vB security bulletin, and they mentioned problems with phpBB might, if your board is hosted on shared hosting (as we are), give attackers the ability to put the ixnay on vB files too. They said to chmod all the php and html files in your account to 655. I was lazy and used FTP to chmod all our files to 655, which apparantly wasn't the right thing to do. I reverted the vB CSS folder and images folders to their former CHMOD value, and left the others. Seems to have fixed it.

I'm sorry I asked.

Hear, hear, Jan!

...what problems, I ask. *shrugs, continues as was*

In other words Kas was supposed to use chmod to transfer all the php and html files in the personal account to 655, but he was lazy and use file transfer protocol instead to transfer it, which as it turned out was an incorrect method for transfer in this case, so he reverted to the backup files, and left it alone, hence it was fixed.

Ok then.

Kas needed to transfer some files from part "A" to part "B" on the server, and he was supposed to use file transfer system "A", but he used file transfer system "B" instead, which proved to be incompatiable, so when stuff like that happens, there are backup files, call them files "A2", and replace the messed up "A1" files with the "A2" files, so now he is back at square 1 with the "A2" files replacing the "A1" files.