Upgraded 3.1 Patch - Security code not working

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 11, 2006 Posts: 4

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some help.
I wanted to install NSN Theme System on my site but it requires the 2.9 security patch.

I am running PHPNuke 7.5 and I just installed the 3.1 patch (that's all I could find).

After installing the patch I installed a couple other things, but the problem I'm having is displaying security codes for both the admin login and the NSN Theme System download pages.

Here's everything that I installed before noticing the security code not displaying:
Nuke Patch 3.1 (my guess is this broke it)
NSN Theme System
MReviews (want to remove, will not be using)
mTutorials
TotalViewer (want to remove, will not be using)

My guess is that the 3.1 patch is what is causing my security codes not to display. I have been previously running Your_Account. Is there something that needs to be updated in terms of the Your_Account?

I haven't done the 'readme' from the patch, where I mod the blocks so they'll display on the right hand side of the page. I don't think this would be related.

I've been searching this and other forums all day to no avail. I checked my GD info and everything is installed. Also, before the patch upgrade, the admin login page security codes were displaying fine. I had the registration security codes disabled previously thru Your_Account.

At first I thought it was a problem with NSN Theme System not displaying the security codes, then I logged out as admin and noticed the admin login page wasn't displaying then either.

I'm kind of in a bind now since I can't log in as admin on my site, since I logged out and now the codes aren't displaying. If anyone can give any sort of info or informative links for this, PLEASE DO.

I did do a full site backup before running the upgrade patch, but I'd rather fix the issue and move on.

Final questions:
Do you think it's the 3.1 patch or the NSN Theme System that caused this?
Where do I look for code problems that affect both security codes?
Is it possible I didn't fully complete the patch upgrade?

I will continue to search for this, but everything I found so far was either old info or the suggestions checked out fine.

Thanks ahead of time for any info

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 11, 2006 Posts: 4

BTW - I'll be going over this link again:
http://nukecops.com/PHP-Nuke_security-code.html

I tried everything there I think, but I'd rather try to get the security codes working, rather than disabling them

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 11, 2006 Posts: 4

Does my Your_Account need to be upgraded?

I checked pretty much all of my php files and did not see any extra lines at the ends of the files, nor spaces

I also tried changing:
$gfx_chk = 1;
to
$gfx_chk = 0;

That didn't disable the codes easily. I did this in my config.php in my main public html directory.

Are there other places that need this done in order to work?

Hmmm, this is becoming quite the problem for me. Seeing as I have pretty much no experience with this stuff, I think I may just have to restore my database and files and go back to 7.5 unpatched. Must have been a bad patch? Well I'll give it another couple days before going that route.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 11, 2006 Posts: 4

I have a correction to make about my change:

I also tried changing:
$gfx_chk = 1;
to
$gfx_chk = 0;

It seems like this HAS disabled codes for my admin login page. However, I still have codes displaying with my NSN Themes System. Since I'm only disabling the codes, rather than fixing them - the picture is broke in my NSN Theme System.

Anyone have a quick fix for disabling these as well within NSN Theme System?

Guh, I really wish I could just fix the broken security code image problem, rather than disabling them all together.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12388

My guess is the NSN system isn't compatible with Patched 3.1
Using Patched 3.1 on a clean install of phpNuke 7.5 seems to work fine

Can you actually bring up the image link in your browser? Look at that code and see if there's bad code in there.. usually its a script that decides to output its HTML before the image ever gets outputted