Archive for November, 2007
Back-up Your Themes, Review Your File Permissions
Nov 14th
Last November 12, 2007, this site yuwoncedric.com is down for almost 2 days. And mind you guys, it’s not the usual downtime experience that I usually get from my host. If you have visited my site this past 2 days, you will get an error like this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/yuwonced/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lazy-k-gallery.php on line 296
If your site is powered by wordpress, at a snap of a finger you would know that this is probably one of your codes in the plugin that did not work. If such error occurs, we normally go back to our theme and delete the code, right? But in my case, I haven’t done anything on my site.
When I was about to post something on that day, I was greeted by this error code. It just took me 2 seconds to know that this is not a normal downtime. Even logging in to the site itself didn’t push through. I immediately e-mailed by hosting provider about the said incident and after 18 hours all I got is this:
We are still investigating the said incident, your account is currently under complete security audit. For now, we strongly advice that you delete all php files and directories (including sub-files and dirs) with a file permission of 777.
Do contact us for any other inquiries you may have.
donalyza.com experienced the same fate and to cut the story short, our hosting provider got a PHP exploit according to dona’s e-mail. This can also happen to anybody. Here’s an excerpt of her e-mail:
It appears that your (wp-content/themes/resurrection) was infected by a php exploit, including any other php files on your home directory that has a file/folder permission of 777.
I strongly advice that you re-install themes and plains to fix this issue. In addition, you may want to secure your themes and plugins directory to prevent future incidents.
So what you should do if such thing happen?
- First, its a good practice to have a back-up, always. Be on the safe side. Have a copy of all your files that you have on the server, including your themes, plugins etc. to your pc.
- Use an FTP client to re-install wordpress. Just overwrite the folders on your site.
- Once you have re-installed wordress, upload all the back-up that you have from the pc to your server. Your site should be up and running at no time.
Google’s Gadget
Nov 11th
There are times that whenever I view my site, I feel bored, tired and sometimes irritated. I know, I’m used to it. It’s my everyday page in firefox. I have this feeling of a need for change. The need for colors, interactions or games. There’s always an itch to change my wordpress theme or perhaps placing some image ads just to suppress my site fatigue. But none of those were the solution that I am looking for and honestly, It somehow affects my sustainability to post fresh contents on this blog. I just hope that things will change with the help of this google gagets.
Google gadget is just one of the big G’s resources to improve your site’s functionality, making your site interesting and useful to your visitors. There are a lot to choose from, ranging from various categories such as News, Tools, Communication, Fun and Games, Finance, Sports, Lifestyle and Technology. What I like most is the mp3 player, you can see it in action in my sidebar. Now I can play the mp3′s that I have on my pc to my site and sharing it as well to my visitors. Cool isn’t? (need to edit the play list later, I’m writing this post while I’m in the office shhhhh!) Now I’m thinking about to have a post every week to feature my google gadget for the day. hmmm, we’ll see about it. To learn more about google gadgets, click here.
Here are some of the examples of what they have.
Try Mozilla Firefox V3.0b RC1
Nov 8th
I was able to download a copy of the unofficial release of firefox version 3 however like what mozilla.org says, it is not yet stable and was mistakenly reported as an official release in Digg. Here’s an excerpt from mozilla’s website:
(Hi! You may have been redirected here while looking for the Firefox 3 Beta. We’re sad to say that it’s not actually ready yet, but we’re awfully happy that you stopped by. Read on for more details!)
At around 4am PST today, the last of the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release candidate builds appeared on our public FTP. This was mistakenly reported on Digg as the official release of the first Firefox 3 Beta. It’s extremely flattering to get this sort of attention, and we know that it’s motivated by the very best of intentions, but it does cause us three major problems:
- The release candidate builds have not been thoroughly tested by our QA group,
- we haven’t completed all the steps required for a beta release (see below), and
- these builds aren’t being mirrored properly on our servers.
If you want to be a beta tester, feel free to download the file but use it with caution. Don’t install the firefox version 3.0b rc1 on it’s default directory as it may override some of the add-ons and plugins that you have on your stable version.
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