Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 8
Location: Australia
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Hope you are doing well.
It has come to our attention that on most of our servers, people are running forums using a vulnerable version of phpBB which is open for hackers and they can easily deface your forum. They will be able to run other scripts on the server by exploiting the vulnerabilities of your forum.
I would like to advice you to either upgrade your forum to the latest version of phpBB or shutdown the forum immediately to prevent hackers from exploiting its vulnerablilites.
You can upgrade it through Cpanel - only if you have installed it through Cpanel Fantastico - Cpanel -> Fantastico -> Bulletin Board -> Upgrade an existing Installation -> Select your forum from the drop down list box and click on Upgrade to 2.0.17.
If you have installed it manually you need to download the latest patch for phpBB from http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpbb/phpBB-2.0.18-patch.tar.gz
and untar it in your local machine.
Then upload the contents to your forum directory and call the link http://www.yourdomain.com/pathtoforum/install/update_to_latest.php.
If you see no error messages then you have successfully upgraded the forum to its latest version.
You must remove the directory "install" and "contrib" in order to access your forum for the next time.
Please do note that if you want to avail the new features introduced in the latest version of phpBB you need to patch the existing phpBB forums before you call the link http://www.yourdomain.com/pathtoforum/install/update_to_latest.php using the command "patch -p1 < phpBB-your.current.version_to_2.0.18.patch".
For example if your current version is phpbb-2.0.11 you need to issue the command patch -p1 < phpBB-2.0.11_to_2.0.18.patch. To know the current version of phpbb please access your forum and see the bottom of the page.
Please feel free to open a support ticket if you need any assistance in this regard. |
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