Installing PHPNUKE froma Cpanel

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 11:49 pm

My webhosting co uses a cpanel for me to acces anything i want ed to do to my site error logs cgi script libary ect anyway i installed nuke 6.0 what they had i love it .. but i want to upgrade and they are not offering an upgrade via the cpanel is there any other way to upgrade with out having to go through the cpanel ? i found out that a cpanel is the hardest thing ... i have everworked with .... when it comes to webhosting .... but hey 16gigbwd a month and 5gig of space for 100 bucks rocked for the price at the time !
if anyone can help ... please i am a newbie from the word GO!

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:49 am

KiLZo wrote:

My webhosting co uses a cpanel for me to acces anything i want ed to do to my site error logs cgi script libary ect anyway i installed nuke 6.0 what they had i love it .. but i want to upgrade and they are not offering an upgrade via the cpanel is there any other way to upgrade with out having to go through the cpanel ? i found out that a cpanel is the hardest thing ... i have everworked with .... when it comes to webhosting .... but hey 16gigbwd a month and 5gig of space for 100 bucks rocked for the price at the time !
if anyone can help ... please i am a newbie from the word GO!

Okay, (self-professed) n00b, you clicked the button in your Cpanel and it installed 6.0 for you. That's the smartest thing you ever did! Most ppl try to install Nuke themselves and become life-long CMS haters because of the experience.

If you're really a n00b, play around with it and figure out how it works. This should take you a couple of weeks. After you're comfortable with your new knowledge, then you can upgrade to something newer. I suggest 6.5. That's what I run and I like it just fine.

After you're comfortable with 6.5, then you can start patching, hacking, tweaking and all the sort of stuff us 'experts' love to do so much. Wink

You gotta learn how to walk before you can run, you know?

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:53 am

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Okay, (self-professed) n00b, you clicked the button in your Cpanel and it installed 6.0 for you. That's the smartest thing you ever did! Most ppl try to install Nuke themselves and become life-long CMS haters because of the experience.

If you're really a n00b, play around with it and figure out how it works. This should take you a couple of weeks. After you're comfortable with your new knowledge, then you can upgrade to something newer. I suggest 6.5. That's what I run and I like it just fine.

After you're comfortable with 6.5, then you can start patching, hacking, tweaking and all the sort of stuff us 'experts' love to do so much.

You gotta learn how to walk before you can run, you know?

Ok i gotacha on that one i have played with it some i have my site up and running with it .... ( still would like to know how to make these badass themes like at your site vindsl) i will give it a few days and ... get back on here and find out how to upgrade but is it true what they say about security of 6.0 ? that it dont take much to hack it ... i have my .htaccess not allowing anything but php and html to be accessed but anyway ! oorah ! semper fi thanks again VinDSL thanks.... Idea

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:16 pm

KiLZo wrote:

...is it true what they say about security of 6.0 ? that it dont take much to hack it ...

Yeah, PHP-Nuke is a beautiful program, but the script kiddies just love to hack it. It's like when you buy a new car and some idiot just can't wait to run a key down it, or smash a shopping cart into the side. That's the way it is. Some ppl can't stand it when someone else has something nice, you know?

Anyway, yeah 6.0 (unpatched) is pretty much wide open to attack. It was secure when it came out, but everyone has figured out the weaknesses by now.

It's an ongoing process. You stick our finger in a hole and another leak pops up elsewhere. It's a cat 'n' mouse game we play with the hackers. There is no true security on the Internet.

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KiLZo wrote:

My webhosting co uses a cpanel for me to acces anything i want ed to do to my site error logs cgi script libary ect anyway i installed nuke 6.0 what they had i love it .. but i want to upgrade and they are not offering an upgrade via the cpanel is there any other way to upgrade with out having to go through the cpanel ? i found out that a cpanel is the hardest thing ... i have everworked with .... when it comes to webhosting .... but hey 16gigbwd a month and 5gig of space for 100 bucks rocked for the price at the time !
if anyone can help ... please i am a newbie from the word GO!

If you need help upgrading, please contact me at my site (see signature).

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:05 pm

I have register at your site and messaged you Raven thanks ...

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 8:32 pm

ok i am gonna be a rock even more .... then what i was .... i found a pkg folder on my site when you install from my Cpanel and it had a few files in it for upgrading .. only it didnt have the upgrade for 6.0 to 6.5 anyway i uploaded the file from phpnuke 6.5 prolly was the wrong thing to do ... but i am getting an error and this is the error

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/krvsnet/public_html/upgrade/upgrade60-65.php on line 39

and this is what line 39 looks like

// Blocks Table Alteration
$db->sql_query("ALTER TABLE ".$prefix."_blocks CHANGE position bposition CHAR(1) NOT NULL"); <(~~~ line 39

// Session Table Alteration
$db->sql_query("ALTER TABLE ".$prefix."_session CHANGE username uname VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL");

// phpBB Forums Port Tables Creation
$db->sql_query("ALTER TABLE ".$user_prefix."_users ADD user_active tinyint(1) default '1'");
$db->sql_query("ALTER TABLE ".$user_prefix."_users ADD user_session_time int(11) NOT NULL default '0'");
$db->sql_query("ALTER TABLE ".$user_prefix."_users ADD user_session_page smallint(5) NOT NULL default '0'");

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:00 pm

Ok i fixed the problem i had the next question is why when i go to login and get to the admin menu i clikc on like prefences and it kicks me out and moves me back to the login section ?

can someone please help ... i am a rock

Elite Nuker Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 218

That sounds like the old "admin loop" issue. There are many posts here discussing this exact issue.

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 7:17 pm

Maybe i should of had this post closed out.

I found the problem and fixed it by killing the Cpanel install and doing a freash install using the same database but now i am upgraded to 6.9 and Rockin its a slow site i am working on getting new members and users on my site ... but if you click my banner below you will be able to see it i also have All versons of nuke for download .... even 6.9.0 ....

KiLZo Out!

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:05 am

Nice theme!

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:47 am

Thanks Vin That actualy means a lot to me coming from you!

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 04, 2003 Posts: 8

I am also facing the same situation. I have installed Nuke 6.0 from a cpanel. I want to upgrade to 6.9. I have been messing with it for a few weeks now and am getting nowhere. Is there a tutorial somewhere? The upgrade directions that come with nuke don't make sense to me, and I am a BIG n00b to php and sql....so, I need a lifeline here!

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 8

I too am on 6.0 and want to upgrade...but I have NO idea how to even start...anyone have a site that shows me how to do it? I will love you forever...