Mambo Upgraded to Joomla

I was using Mambo CMS on my site

 

http://www.webhostingneeds.com

 

The version i used was too old, v 4.5  (1.0.1)

 

I tried few times to get this upgrade, but could not figure out how to do this with out errors.

 

Today there was a Mambo/Joomla exploit

 

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1698

 

So i descided to do some thing on my Mambo Installation, after several try, i got my Mambo upgraded to version 4.5.2.

 

Joomla is a fork of Mambo server, but seems more active than orginal Mambo, so i upgraded by Mambo 4.5.2 to latest version of Joomla CMS 1.0.10

 

Now i have to do some changes in Joomla template, so my site look better. Also thinking of installing some SEO MOD for Joomla.

Google Checkout and My CMS

Today signed up for Google Checkout

 

http://checkout.google.com

 

Hope Google Checkout will get popular like PayPal soon :-)

 

Today i started designing of CMS for BizHat.com sub domains. What i have done is ported the CMS i made for www.scriptinstallation.in to handle multiple domain names.  The CMS is basic, not much feature now. I am planing to move all sites to this CMS, presently two sub domains are pointed to this CMS for testing

 

http://qmail.bizhat.com

http://postfix.bizhat.com

 

The first real site on this CMS will be

 

http://mariasadanam.bizhat.com

 

This will allow client to update pages easily.

 

CMS is in beata testing, need to make more user friendly.

Auto Signup Attack on phpBB

Today i found server that hosts http://forums.bizhat.com is down.

 

I tried to login with SSH, server was responding, but was very slow.

 

On login in i found server load of 20 to 40 and too many apache process. The one tak take too much CPU is MySQL.

 

I tried to restart the server, but on rebooting, again the CPU usage goes high.

 

I stoped MySQL and start watching the Apache log file and found

 

 

195.225.176.87 - - [26/Jun/2006:17:29:07 +0100] "POST /profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true&coppa=true HTTP/1.1" 200 30382 "http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&q=free+porno&btnG=Google+Search" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0;)"

 

There are too many such connections.

 

The problem is fixed by blocking the user with mod_security

 

SecFilterSelective "HTTP_REFERER" "porno"

My First Experiance with Debian Linux

Today i got an software installation work on Debian Linux. The software i used to install on Linux servers (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS). But i never worked with Debian Linux.

 

As usual loged in with SSH

 

ps519:~# uname -a
Linux ps519 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
ps519:~#

 

cat /etc/*release there was no files.

 

ps519:/etc# cat /etc/*release
cat: /etc/*release: No such file or directory
ps519:/etc#

cat /proc/version says it is debian

 

ps519:/# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005
ps519:/#

 

The command used to install software on debian is apt-get

 

 

I have installed lynx to test it :-)

 

 

ps519:/# apt-get install lynx
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lynx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1855kB of archives.
After unpacking 4690kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 [1855kB]
Fetched 1855kB in 2s (781kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package lynx.
(Reading database ... 27817 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lynx (from .../lynx_2.8.5-2sarge2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up lynx (2.8.5-2sarge2) ...

 

ps519:/#

 

Thats great my first software installation on Debian Linux.

 

 

 

BizHat Wins

On April 10, 2006 i have written about BizHat.com alexa rank.

 

Today BizHat.com alexa Rank is 3,476

 

In 50 days, alexa rank increased by - 4089 and wins over kerala's high traffic web site i told in previous post.

 

These days we are working on to get more traffic.

 

NetFreeHost.com free phpBB forums moved to new desicated server

 

Dual AMD Opteron 246
1024MB RAM x 2 = 2048MB
73GB SCSI Drive
2000GB BW
8IP's (Private Vlan; 5 Usable

 

This server have CentOS 4.3, previous servers are running FreeBSD. I changed to Linux after i found some instability with old AMD 64 3800 server running FreeBSD 6. Not sure instability is due to high traffic (server was serving 100000 page views a day). The server goes down for noreason, causing MySQL database corruption. Now on new server, everything is working fine, no down time.

BizHat.com News Redesigned

Two days back, the cutenews program used at http://news.bizhat.com stoped working. I have installed this program two years back and was working fine so far.

 

The news URL of CuteNews program was not search engine friendly. So i was thinking of replacing the news script with some thing else.

 

After the CuteNews go down for some reason (it won't show any news, just blank page), i started coding my own news system. I have finished it in two days. Presently there is not much function, just add news, list, edit and delete news.

 

The news program is made with search engine in mind, all news pages are search engine friendly.

 

weak_job_growth_in_may_signals_cooling.html

 

You can see the news program at

 

http://news.bizhat.com

 

I need to make some frills like recent news box, hot news and a news home page like popular news site. Now news site can only handle text, need to add feature for uploading images and manage it. Uploading image can be done easily, but  managing it, that is delete it when the news item get deleted, i have to find a way to do this.