OSCommerce Admin not working!

[microtecs]

Went to my OSCommerce Admin today and all that is displayed is a blank page. It was working fine on Monday. Any ideas what could be causing this? My site has been live for about a year without any problems..... I need to get this resolved quickly....

Any help would be greatly appreciated....

[Brangwyn]

This was caused by Vortech trying to make a global change to osCommerce sites without notifying people and it going fairly horribly wrong.

You may need to reupload a couple of the files and/or get the security permissions on the files reset if it's running on Unix.

I believe the effected files are general.php, html_output.php

[TonyK]

Hey microtecs I just checked one of my sites with OsCommerce at Vortech and works fine Admin and the site.
Good luck

[microtecs]

I have a test site (non-SSL) and live site (SSL). The non-ssl is working, not the SSL.

Thanks Brangwyn - I've submitted a trouble ticket, so hopefully I can get this resolved quickly. Thanks for the heads up on possible problem - much appreciated... Both residing on Unix.

[Brangwyn]

Originally Posted by TonyK

Hey microtecs I just checked one of my sites with OsCommerce at Vortech and works fine Admin and the site.
Good luck

Brad did try to undo the mess the made the other day so you might have been one of the lucky ones.

Just as an fyi according to my customer this isn't the first "stealth" change thats been made to osCommerce installations without letting us know either.

[craigdunlop]

I only have it running on Windows, all of mine appear to be working fine but my ears are still burning :-)

[Light Speed]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

Just as an fyi according to my customer this isn't the first "stealth" change thats been made to osCommerce installations without letting us know either.

They also did a system wide change to all PHPBB installs both to custom and CP installed. The change was on Dec 24, 2004 to the viewtopic.php and they did it to stop the worm that was running rampant globally with PHPBB installs at that time.

[Brangwyn]

Yes, I wish they wouldn't do such a thing personally, particularly without letting us know in advance. I know it's well meaning and all but thats not the point.

I also have no idea what the legal implications of modifying data owned by customers without their express permission would be either.

[craigdunlop]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

...I also have no idea what the legal implications of modifying data owned by customers without their express permission would be either.

I find it very hard to be able to put that one into my terms of service. Ermmm, "...your website files could be edited and/or deleted at any time without notice, for the good of the server..."

[Emilio]

How did you manage to secure your osc admin panels?
Also, has anyone of you integrated the ikobo payment contribution into his osc store? If yes then how ? Thanks.

[Brangwyn]

The osc admins protected by default if you install via HSphere isn't it ? if not then just use .htaccess or Webshell to password protect the directory.

[Emilio]

Is .htaccess enough to protect our store from hackers?
Does anybody use ikobo's payment contribution ?

[ixie02]

Do we have something we can put in our .htaccess to proctect us from Vortec? lol

[mresell]

Yeah guinea pigging other peoples sites seems unprofessional to me, as well. Especially when noone is told before hand.

[Emilio]

Originally Posted by Emilio

Is .htaccess enough to protect our store from hackers?
Does anybody use ikobo's payment contribution ?

I finally found out how to install ikobo's payment module for oscommerce. Thanks for your answers.
It was so easy ...