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comedyrobot
Starting Member
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 Posted - 06 August 2009 : 09:35:35
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I'm getting flooded by bots since my upgrade to .07.
The GateKeeper Anti Spam settings won't save. I type in a question and an answer, hit submit new config, the response page says Configuration Posted! but when I return to the config, what I typed is not there and there's no question on the registration page.
Any help? I'm getting hammered by bots and this worked fine in .06... |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4207 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 09:38:56
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| Sure sounds like you overlooked a portion of the changes for "config.asp" |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 09:40:59
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| Well yes - I think so...the Feature Configs save for everything else, like IP logging etc, just not Gatekeeper. |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 09:52:59
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The only thing I changed that I may not have had to change was this:
Dim strUniqueID : strUniqueID = "Comedyrobot"
I believe the value before was Snitz01 something like that. I read the 'read me' completely and looked at all the values to change in the config.asp. All other features seem to be working just fine. |
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4207 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 10:06:19
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| Post a link to your "config.asp" in .txt format for us to review. Before making the file available, delete the line with the connection string to your database. |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4207 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 11:20:27
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| Here you go. After adding your database information line back in and replacing your config.asp with this one, you have to go to the admin panel and click "Check Installation" to initialize the variables. Then it should work. |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 11:38:50
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Ok I'll give it a try and report back. :)
Looks like there were some gatekeeper strings not in mine?
strRegistrationGatekeeper = Application(strCookieURL & "STRREGISTRATIONGATEKEEPER")
strLinkSpamGatekeeper = Application(strCookieURL & "STRLINKSPAMGATEKEEPER")
strPopMailGatekeeper = Application(strCookieURL & "STRPOPMAILGATEKEEPER")
strGatekeeperQuestion = Application(strCookieURL & "STRGATEKEEPERQUESTION")
strGatekeeperAnswer1 = Application(strCookieURL & "STRGATEKEEPERANSWER1")
strGatekeeperAnswer2 = Application(strCookieURL & "STRGATEKEEPERANSWER2")
I believe the one I had was the one from the upgrade zip... |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 13:22:51
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I'm getting hammered with bots posting links to porn and viagra. Any ideas on why it's still not reflected in the registration page?
I guess I could do the capcha thing I saw somewhere in the forum...if that was easy enough...
It'd be cool if the base model could be made to work, but I get it - freeware and I've gotten what I paid for. :) |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 13:53:23
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Are you doing any member validation beforehand? Like e-mail validation? I ask only because it seems like the bots should have been caught somewhere earlier...
Have you done any log analysis to see if its the ForumPoster crap again with a new user-agent string?
Have you checked for any odd entries in the user profile (like a Gender of 1) to see if you can block the account creation? |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 14:01:12
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well the answer to all those is no - as I was relying on the previously working GateKeeper Mod. That worked just great. Not a single bot got in and I didn't have to do any email validation.
Right now the problem is the GateKeeper Mod fields don't show up in the registration page - which they used to. The Mod is saving now since the new page was posted by Carefree.
Until (or if) it gets working again, I've put on the email validation and turned off the links showing in the profile. My forum is a sleepy little thing so not the end of the world to do that, but it would be nice to have the Gatekeeper working like it used to as it was perfect for my site.
EDIT - BTW, I realize this is a mod, but I think it's in the base model (right?) - I don't remember having to actually add the mod in .06. But it's been a while. Perhaps I need to install some mod code for it...? |
Edited by - comedyrobot on 06 August 2009 14:04:35 |
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4207 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 14:27:38
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| Post a link to your "register.asp" in .txt format and I'll take a look. |
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comedyrobot
Starting Member
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
4207 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2009 : 22:18:41
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| You're welcome. Here you go. |
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