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HELP!!! Forum Upgrade
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Tue May 23, 2006 1:14 pmby Scott Hatch
We need to upgrade the forum ASAP.
We've recently undergone numerous spam attacks. These spam accounts are using the @nea4wd.org to send spam email. My home email has been flooded over the past week with hundreds of bounced emails. The only way we can thrawt this is to upgrade the forum.
Can someone help?
Posted:
Tue May 23, 2006 10:29 pmby smokinsilverrt
i will ask ryan my buddy if he knows how hes great with computers.
biggtimm,
official bunghole creator
Posted:
Tue May 23, 2006 11:47 pmby JayZR2
As a band aid till you get upgraded you might be able to prevent spammers by changing the enable account activation to admin. This means you would have to approve everyone who applies though.
It is on the configuration page from your admin console.
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 8:43 amby Scott Hatch
Thanks!
Now how do I turn on the legit users?
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 9:51 amby JayZR2
You should receive an email request with some sort of pending user application to whatever email is the master account for the "God" admin. On our site we have an "approve membership" button on the admin page that shows pending application. Select approve or deny and that person gets emailed a response.
OOps We are on 2.0.18 though. I don't think 2.0.11 has that option. Sorry my bad.
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 9:55 amby Scott Hatch
I know, already deleted one spam account since I made this change
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 9:58 amby Scott Hatch
Make that 3
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 10:12 amby JayZR2
RWS can't do the upgrade for you?
I had some bugs after we did our last one and I still don't really "know" why. I wouldn't want to be responsible for bring your site down.
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Wed May 24, 2006 10:42 amby jacodi
Invision.
Posted:
Wed May 24, 2006 12:47 pmby Scott Hatch
JayZR2 wrote:RWS can't do the upgrade for you?
I had some bugs after we did our last one and I still don't really "know" why. I wouldn't want to be responsible for bring your site down.
We are a charity case for RWS, the techincal help we get is typically free of charge. Doing a forum upgrade is time consuming which means $$$
If you or someone elset can do the upgrade I can put you in touch with Rich.
For now I need to delete another 5-10 spam accounts...
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 12:38 amby XJMA
I'm not the guy with the skills in this department, but if a programmer or some computer geeks (no offense) of that sort are what is needed I have quite a few friends that write code at EMC, and a bunch of friends in IT. If they are the type of people that we need a favor from, lemme know, some of them owe me!
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 9:06 amby Scott Hatch
If its free we're on it
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Fri May 26, 2006 9:15 amby JayZR2
It should only take about an hour, if you know what your doing. It is just a matter of FTPing the new rev over the existing software. I've only done it once and it didn't go very smooth for me. Probably because I was winging it.
The other thing to consider is some of your customization may get lost in the upgrade which means you'd have to make all the changes again. We lost a couple things I haven't been able to get back when we did ours.
So Marty in answer to your question, yes an IT guy should have all the basic skills to complete the task.