Continuing TISTAT's
access-denied theme,
Fake Barn Country is having some issues. SPAM was up last week by more than a little, and since yesterday, we've been unable to log in to delete SPAM or write new entries. I've put in a request to Brown Web Publishing to see if they can figure out what's going on. In the meantime, advice is appreciated. When we try to log in, which we do by going to this site
http://cgi-user.brown.edu/cgi-user/opp/mt.cgi
instead of being prompted for a password and username, we get this error message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-user/opp/mt.cgi on this server.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at webpub.brown.edu Port 80
Did some setting get assigned wrong? Has a clever SPAMmer/hacker managed to lock us out of our own site? I know next to nothing about such things... help much appreciated. I'll be updating FBC news here if there's more to report before we're able to post there.
UPDATE, already (6:15 p.m.): I went to post a comment at FBC, pointing to this post, but it turns down that my ability to comment there, too, is now gone.
UPDATE (Nov. 1, 5:00 p.m.): We don't seem much closer to a solution, although we have a hypothesis as to a cause. The URL we've been using references "opp", which was Brian Weatherson's paper's blog before he left Brown. His two blogs and FBC were all set up using the same stuff, it seems -- the working theory is that somebody deleted his old things, failing to realize that they were still being used by us. I'm still waiting to hear back from Brown Web Publishing for insight.
UPDATE (Nov. 2):
FBC is back online, finally. At the moment, it's even free of grossly offensive spam.
Jon,
ReplyDeleteSorry, I don't have a clue as to how to fix that problem but holy mother of God did you guys get bombed by Spam of the absolute worst sort. I wish you guys luck and look forward to the day that fake barn country is the kind of place for the whole family.