1 Reply by lawrie

(7 replies, posted in Discussions)

OK,

I risk looking daft :0

I registered on the new forum and posted also with no outward sigh than any anti spam system was in place.

Is this how it should be?

I have put punstopbots in now and downgraded to 1.33.

If I have made an error in understanding I would rather go back to 1.4 and use fancy...

Thanks for your patience.

Lawrie

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2 Reply by lawrie

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Thanks for being so quick to respond.

I had assumed that there were questions to answer.



so, is there a hidden honeypot that bots will fill in and genuine folk cannot see?

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3 Topic by lawrie

(7 replies, posted in Discussions)

I have installed fancy stop spam but it does not show on the registration page at all.

This is a new V1.4 forum

I am therefore using the account activation by email.

Will this prevent spam registrations?

Thanks

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4 Reply by lawrie

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.3 troubleshooting)

felixturner wrote:

Just hit the same issue. When auto upgrading Antispam System to v1.3.2, captcha no longer appeared. Setting antispam extension folder to 755 fixes it. thanks!

Same for me.
Seems that there are a few hosts like this smile

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5 Reply by lawrie

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

I found that the Guest entry in the users table was corrupted.
Once sorted everything is fine.
Must have been me at one stage but cannot work out why I even went there.
Sorry for the confusion.
Regards
Lawrie

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6 Reply by lawrie

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Thanks for your help smile
I have checked permissions and guests are only allowed to read posts.
I have checked DB and this is the same.
The only anomoly I have seen is that the table forum_perms is empty.
I will install the forum on another site, check DB, insert data and transfer DB to existing site.
Lawrie

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7 Reply by lawrie

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

OK,
This gets stranger.
I have settings where guests cannot post a new topic or reply...yet I cn when logged out.
That is what is letting the spmmers in.
Any advice?
Thanks

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8 Reply by lawrie

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Hi,
Been away so sorry for not posting.
No duplicate forum and entry url's are the forum post page. (forum/post.php)
When I click thsat link I get a 'you need to register' page where they obviously get straight in.
Thanks
Lawrie

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9 Topic by lawrie

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Hi,
Sorry if this is old  but I am getting spam posts where the users are not registered and do not show up in the DB as users.
I have set it up so users have to be registered to post.
Any way to fix this ?
Thanks
Lawrie

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10 Reply by lawrie

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

If I uploaded the latest version could I rplace the new database directly with the old one

Thanks

lawrie

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11 Topic by lawrie

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Hi I have an old version on a site made in 2004.

I wondered if there was a simple captcha that could be put on it.

The look was customised so I assume upgrading the site would be lenghty
thanks
lawrie

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12 Reply by lawrie

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good advice :-)
thanks

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13 Topic by lawrie

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I am trying to create a link from the admin section of a site which opens up the administration of the forum without having to log on.
I have done it with a gallery with something like this:
<form action="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/forum/admin_index.php" method="post" name="form2" id="form2">
            <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="form">
       
          <input type="hidden" name="action" value="login" />
            <input type="hidden"  name="password" size=8 value="timspassword">
            <input type="hidden"  name="user" size=8 value="tim">
        </form>

This is not working sad
Anyone help with this
thanks

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