Messages posted by: Anonymous

HEY NOTHING IS THERE WHAT IS THIS

IN MY SITE THIS GUEST BOOK IS NOT WORKING,ALL THE USERS GETTING THE ERROR Like

Guestbook - Error
One of the input fields does not seem to be valid.

BUT IAM I SURE ALL DATA ENTERED IN INPUT FIELDS ARE VALID

IS THERE ANY FIX

OK, I thought this through a little more and have managed to fix the problem (at least for my guestbook).

Before doing anything, dump your database to have a baseline to restore back to before doing any of the following, your milage may vary, all the rest of the usual disclaimers apply to my suggestion below:

It appears that MySQL 4.1+ might treat "password" by itself as a field name as a magic field, automatically applying the new password encryption rules on the data in a field with that name.

To fix this on my site I went into phpMyAdmin and clicked on the book_auth table, then clicked browse to pull up the data inside that table, and then on the pencil to edit the admin I wanted to fix. From there, I put in "value" the *PLAINTEXT* password that I wanted to use, and in the 'function' pulldown selected PASSWORD. Upon clicking "go" there was now a new encrypted password in the field and viola, logins to the guestbook admin function now work again.

I believe you can un-do just the attempt at password change in phpMyAdmin by saving the data from password field in notepad, doing the above change, and if it doesn't work just pasting the original data back into the field without selecting a function. Or just restore the dump you made of the entire database before attempting the change

Course, if your password doesn't work before or after this change, it shouldn't really matter what the data in that field is, but I digress.

Luck.
P

I updated my site's MySQL from 4.0.20 to 4.1.8 and can't get into the admin system either.

There is some information at MySQL about changes to the password exchange system in MySQL 4.1, perhaps we're falling into that issue? Specifically the "password handling changes" section at the bottom of http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Upgrading-from-4.0.html ?

JTD,

I know that would help. I guess that I need to explain a little better.
I have a link on the home page to the index.php file on the server. Am I doing this wrong? Do I need to make a html page for the guestgook and copy the index.php to it or what?

Thanks for the reply

Doug

Thank You

Here is the links

http://www.lekeeperworld.com/guestbook/admin.php

http://www.lekeeperworld.com/guestbook/index.php

Paul Dupre
www.lekeeperworld.com
paul.dupre@lefutbolshop.com

Hello

No not fixed. I cant sign on to finish installation process in the admin portion. The guestbook can be signed but nothing can be done by admin.

The problem is that I cant even get past the 2nd part of the installation after the so called tables have been set up automatically by the install.php program. .

I do the install.php, input my information, and then tells me it has been successfull and takes me to the 2nd portion of the install for administration portion. Takes me to the Guestbook - Administration Centre sign on screen .....Before you can proceed you have to enter a valid name and password ... use the codes test 123 but no luck.....

This is where I cant get past and I use the codes test and 123 . therefore, I cant even set up languages email to be sent to me when someone signs guest book and all other featuers I like in this program not found anywhere else.

Any help would be appreciated

Hello

No not fixed. I cant sign on to finish installation process in the admin portion. The guestbook can be signed but nothing can be done by admin. You were able to sign onto my site or yours ?

The problem is that I cant even get past the 2nd part of the installation after the so called tables have been set up automatically by the install.php program.

I do the install.php, input my information, and then tells me it has been successfull and takes me to the 2nd portion of the install for administration portion. Takes me to the Guestbook - Administration Centre sign on screen .....Before you can proceed you have to enter a valid name and password ... use the codes test 123 but no luck.....

This is where I cant get past and I use the codes test and 123 . therefore, I cant even set up languages email to be sent to me when someone signs guest book and all other featuers I like in this program not found anywhere else.

Any help would be appreciated

Hi:

I've just recently added the advanced Guestbook to my web site, but I want to go into the admin and change / delete a few entries. I click on the Admin button and get prompted to enter login name and password, but I don't have anything....

need help.

hello,

are there any news about the login problem ???

is it possible, that the problem is a sql problem?

my isp changed the sql version. since this day i can not administrad my guestbooks.

best regards

bernd

Been at this for 8 hours and still unable to log in as well. Tried everything.... reloaded, deleted at leat 20 times. i also have 8 websites looking to load this script.

1. could it be that my server is in switzerland and maybe the lanuagge is in german and french and your script is in english ?

2. i can post to the guetsbook but have aboslutely no access to admin pages. it would not let me in with the "test" and "123". . So therefore , not sure if complete table is loaded. I would be surprised and that is why unable to sign on.?

3. My host company is infomaniak, appache a mysql are all there with php my admin. my whole websites are in php, have other scripts using php. but this one no work ??

Has anyone figured this out and any resolutions i can try. will post here when we get fixed.

thanks in advance

paul.dupre@lefutbolshop.com

I had the same problem. Took me a while but finally got it fixed.

In the original guestbook.pl it has:

# sendmail bugfix
# Thanks to Jason <syberknight@mac.com>
sub send_mail {
open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t");
print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
print MAIL "From: $FORM{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "Subject: New Guestbook Entry\n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: $FORM{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "There is a new entry in the guestbook:\n\n";
print MAIL "From:$FORM{'username'}\n";
print MAIL "$FORM{'message'}\n";
print MAIL "$this_day";
close (MAIL);

You need to change it to:

# sendmail bugfix
# Thanks to Jason <syberknight@mac.com>
sub send_mail {
open (MAIL, "|$mailprog");
print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
print MAIL "From: $FORM{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "Subject: New Guestbook Entry\n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: $FORM{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "There is a new entry in the guestbook:\n\n";
print MAIL "From:$FORM{'username'}\n";
print MAIL "$FORM{'message'}\n";
print MAIL "$this_day";
close (MAIL);

Once I changed the that one little line it worked fine. Before that it would work but I wouldn't get the notice.

Hope this helps you,

Emeraldisle

I have the guest book working but after I logg off admin. I can not get back to my home page. I also does it after signing the guest book?

I am very new to PHP.

Please help

Doug

Im having problems getting the poll working. I have it installed and a poll setup....I put the required code on my page and it doesn't work..i..

Could someone tellme what code needs to go where?

Thanks for posting the fix for the hack 'exploit'. My guestbook has been hacked twice, hopefully this will put a stop to that