pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

This certainly describes a scenario PIW may encounter with spam in mass. This 
is new - I've never had
spam in wikiposts so bad that ibilio takes it offline.
Fred wants some authentication scheme but the version of PHPWiki I am using 
doesn't support this.
Later versions may and so do other wiki software and I would have to start 
over with a new wiki to keep
one up with authentication. Then porting all the pcwiki data would be a 
job+1/2. Anyone here have any suggestions?

I'll bet Monsanto is behind this. Boycott them, in the name of the great 
Hunter S. Thompson!
:-)

LL
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ibiblio.org #10949] my pcwiki (phpWiki) is in accessable on the Web
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:07:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Fred Stutzman via RT <help-comment@ibiblio.org>
Reply-To: help-comment@ibiblio.org
To: lfl@intrex.net
CC: adiu@ibiblio.org, bret.dougherty@ibiblio.org, jbm@ibiblio.org,	john@ibiblio.org, nancy@ibiblio.org, pjones@ibiblio.org,	pod@ibiblio.org, 
yugen@ibiblio.org

Hi Larry,

Your wiki was disabled because it had been harvested by wiki spammers.  Wiki spammers run up the loads on our machines and destroy your 
content, so when we discover a wiki that has been spammed, we turn it off as to prevent past good revisions from being completely deleted.

Anyway, if you'd like me to turn the wiki back on, I can do so.  However, 
you'll need to
clean the spam out of the wiki and set up some authentication scheme so that 
the wiki doesnt get compromised by wiki spammers.

Thanks,
Fred


> [lfl@intrex.net - Mon Feb 21 13:41:50 2005]:
>
>
> My pcwiki:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php
>
> returns this message to Web users:
> <>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php on
> this server.
>
> Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.ibiblio.org Port 80
> <>
>
> I've checked permissions on:
>
> /public/html/ecolandtech/pcwiki
> drwxr-xr-x   19 lflj     users        4096 Jun  4  2004 pcwiki
> /public/html/ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 lflj     users       26961 Apr 19  2003 index.php
>
> Is there some other problem on the ibiblio end preventing this wiki
> from running?
>
> As for the file uploads area they are inaccessable for download and
> not visible
> and few in number though a few spam whick I will clear out.
>
> My pcplantdb people need to use their area in this wiki so I would
> like to get it going again.
>
> Thanks,
>
> LL
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