Urgent, site down MySQL error

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vBulletin 4.2.5 is not compatible with PHP 7.2.0 or higher.

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One word.... VBStopFourmSpam.

Does what it says on the 'tin'.

:Edit: Just noticed, we joined the same month and year.

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Well done, I think you missed 'thank you' off the end

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Would simply putting .xyz in the email banning options work?

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Here you go.
https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230921

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It certainly does work. It stops around 1,000 spam registrations a day on my site.

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Are you running vbStopForumSpam?

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Yes Mark it still occurs in 4.2.5.
When trying to pay a subscription users basically get told there are no paid subscriptions available.

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Isn't this one of the options that can be displayed by simply choosing it from the adminCP.

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That's 2 and a half days ...

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Thank you Mark.
We have just this second resolved this. For some reason the mysql directory got renamed to some random name. It is a dedicated server so I'm not sure what happened there. Will investigate...

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My site went down at 00:35 U.K. time and the server is showing MySQL down. An attempted restart of the MySQL service is showing the following error;-
/usr/sbin/mysqld: File '/var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin-log/mysql_bin.index'...

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Is there any way to remove the times forum posts are made?
Currently running vB4.2.5

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That is how it is supposed to work.

You could create your own button and assign this link to it, this would then bring up all posts made in the last day even if you had read them:-
...

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Mark, Tim is on 4.2.2, surely going back to 3.8.11 isn’t the way forward?...

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Hi Tim,

Just tried it again and indeed all does seem to be fine now, we’ll done.

Without knowing what you have access to regarding the backup of the server I’m not sure what...

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Hi Tim,
Just clicked on your suggested path and all sorts of malicious pop ups appeared, the only way to get rid of them was by killing my FireFox from Task Manager and then choosing not to open...

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Dude, none of your links are visible to guests so we can't see what you are referring to.

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I believe the default is 900 seconds (15 minutes) but you can check this in your AdminCP.

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/core/install directory still exists.

This poses a security risk, so please delete that directory immediately. You cannot access the control panel until you do so.