Kontera login issues, again

[DirtyHarry]

A small tip - after you have done your backup, test that it is properly working by trying to restore it in a temporary database. Believe me, we had to take care of many cases of people with damaged database...

[DirtyHarry]

Any update on the review type? Even some beta code?

[DirtyHarry]

Hello,

I wanted to report that in some forums we work on which are still running vB 3.7.x (latest build), Kontera (latest code) is making it impossible to login. We had to remove the Kontera...

[DirtyHarry]

Zachery, that's obvious (and I did use fix referring to our situation, not to the code). But :

1. A change like this should have been reported. There are dozens of integrations using cookies....

[DirtyHarry]

I have had a few reports from our clients about the issue. We work also with integrations, and users with integrations were even more affected. Basically, we found out that the issue was caused by a sudden...

[DirtyHarry]

Hello,

we have noticed that in the latest vBulletin 4 release, there was a small change in the cookie prefix structure. Basically, after the prefix specified by the user, also an underscore...

[DirtyHarry]

Thanks Edwin, for the time being I do not need the template.

[DirtyHarry]

One hopefully simple question; when I create a new content type, a create button is automatically shown in the top of the CMS pages. Is there some way to hide that button for a specific content type?...

[DirtyHarry]

Edit: Wrong blog post, please ignore this!

Well, since I am here... thanks also for this fantastic tutorial!

[DirtyHarry]

Edwin, thanks for the help.

I tried putting together a package to handle a product requiring basic actions. I am basically saving/editing/showing information stored in a DB row (ex. a vehicle)...

[DirtyHarry]

Edwin, thanks for the fantastic tutorial. One question. We need to develop an app integrated into the vB framework. The app will need a multi step form for saving data, and a special browsing page with...

[DirtyHarry]

You are welcome

[DirtyHarry]

Hello,

the only way I can see this happening is that you are still connecting to your test forum DB. Triple check the DB information in your config.php. What is your forum URL?

[DirtyHarry]

Hello Checkypoint,
I saw a few websites with the same error in the past days due to an hack that had modified some php files. First, try scanning your vbulletin files using vBulletin diagnostic...

[DirtyHarry]

You are welcome

[DirtyHarry]

In your admincp, User Profile Fields -> User Profile Field Manager.

[DirtyHarry]

You may want to delete older sessions in your session table by running something like this:

    DELETE FROM session  WHERE lastactivity < 1258502460

Which will delete all...

[DirtyHarry]

Simply remove the Kontera' javascript from where you placed it, much likely in a template. Search "kontera" across your templates in vBulletin's style manager.

[DirtyHarry]

ENF, you are welcome. I came to the forums as soon as we had discovered it and reported it to vBSEO.

MoMan, yes, it might help against attacks that target files directly (this has happened...

[DirtyHarry]

Mykes, definitely the only way to go if you are unable to track down exactly what they did or you are even a little bit unsure. Also, if you have a file checksum checker in place in your system, you can...