[cobalt-users] RE: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #6810 - 16 msgs

[Matt Syracuse <syracuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello List,

Last week one of my servers was attacked (DOS attack) on port 80. After
getting rid of the scum, we found that about 90% of our sites had broken
FrontPage Extensions. So far, the only  fix is to go into each site settings
and redo the extensions -this took two and half days! Does anyone know of a
quicker fix from the command line or a script I can write that will go
through each site and repair the extensions?

Now we are finding that not all of the extensions are remaining fixed, we
have to go back and redo them a second time.

As for testing of broken extensions, we normally go to the site and click on
the FrontPage icon in the browser and see if it asks for a
Username/password, if not, then the extensions are broken .. any suggestions
on a quicker way to test?

(I have searched the archives, but did not find any matches on this, sorry
if I missed it somehow)

Thanks,

  /\/\att
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Matt Syracuse
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Message: 5
From: "JMG Enterprises Support" <JMG-Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] FrontPage Extensions broken after DOS attack
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:19:05 -0600
Organization: http://www.JMG-Enterprises.com
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Matt,

Since you did not specify which you have, then I am going to generalize the
process that we use.

Usually uninstall and reinstall (uncheck - save - check) will do the trick.
We have had to remove the .htaccess from the web directory and
subdirectories (stats on raq550), then it will reinstall with a check and
password.

John

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John, and anybody else,
There has to be a better and faster way to test and restore FP Ext
throughout a server. I simply can't check every site every day and then go
through unchecking and checking checkboxes all day long.  Whow knows the
proper command line syntax for a test and fix; I'll write the script to loop
through all the sites.

Thanks!
/\/\att