I get "Gallery is currently offline - check back soon" even as admin ?

[Xlars_dk]

I noticed that my site had suddenly changed .. theme was different, language was different and no picures showing etc. TOTALLY changed. I suspect a hacker attack since I did not change anything on the site for a while. I then upgraded to the latest PHP version.

But I have the problem that even as me (which should be with admin rights) I only get "Gallery is currently offline - check back soon".

Is there any way I can initialize my password in the database (going directly to the SQL database where I have the DB adminstrative rights) ?

[Nibbler]

Yes. Alternatively just disable offline mode instead of messing with your password.

[Xlars_dk]

Yes. Alternatively just disable offline mode instead of messing with your password.

Thank you for a quick reply. I probably already messed things up.. because I just before seeing your response changed my password to blank (erased the encrypted password there). And now I am not able to log in with blank. My bad :-(

Is it possible to somehow set the password?

I am looking for offline mode, do you have a hint to what table this setting could be in?

[Nibbler]

It's in the config table, named 'offline'. Set it to 0. Coppermine passwords are md5 hashes, so if you set yourself a password manually you need to enter it as an md5 hash (phpmyadmin makes this easy).

[Xlars_dk]

Exclellent. Thank you so much for your help. I will do as you suggest

[Xlars_dk]

Sorry, to come back already .. looking in the admin table I see different strange things:
Language set to welsh and a strange email for gallery admin ..

Is it just me .. but I can not seem to find the offline column name !?

Copy of contents here:

      albums_per_page 25
      album_list_cols 1234
      display_pic_info 1
      alb_list_thumb_size 1234
      allowed_file_extensions GIF/PNG/JPG/JPEG/TIF/TIFF
      allowed_img_types ALL
      allow_private_albums 1
      allow_user_registration 1
      allow_duplicate_emails_addr 1
      caption_in_thumbview 1
      charset iso-8859-1
      cookie_name   
      cookie_path 1234
      debug_mode 1
      default_dir_mode 1234
      default_file_mode 1234
      default_sort_order pd
      ecards_more_pic_target 1234/
      enable_smilies 1
      filter_bad_words 1
      forbiden_fname_char $/\\:*?"'<>|` &
      fullpath 1234
      gallery_admin_email abc123@acme-hackme.com
      gallery_description 1234
      gallery_name   
      im_options 1234
      impath 1234
      jpeg_qual 1234
      keep_votes_time 30
      lang welsh

Any idea if I am looking the right place (this should be the config table as far as I can see) ?

[Xlars_dk]

.. Sorry there were much more columns than these .. I will look for the offline.

Thanks

[Nibbler]

Sounds like you were using Coppermine 1.3. You really must make an effort to keep up to date to avoid being hacked.

[Xlars_dk]

Sounds like you were using Coppermine 1.3. You really must make an effort to keep up to date to avoid being hacked.

Thank you I will keep more up to date in the future.

My gallery is very corrupted and I can not see pictures throught the homepage .. (I think mostly because of strange values like 1234 set into almost every field that an admin can set)... I wonder if there perhaps is some way to get all these fields set back to "default" values in the database, without erasing my images and descriptions that I can se when looking directly in the database is still there (at least for a number of my images).

Or am I in a situation where you would recommend a total new installation of a clean database?

[Nibbler]

Update to latest 1.4 and then use the 'reset to factory defaults' feature on the config page.

[Xlars_dk]

Update to latest 1.4 and then use the 'reset to factory defaults' feature on the config page.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have upgraded to the letest version (1.4) earlier this evening, and also now based on your suggestions gotten the site online, and changed my password so I am in. BUT I can not get to any admin config page .. the only page showing me something is the search page. Everything else i blank. I wonder if it can be all the strange values set into the database (that I can see directly in the SQL database.

Can I somehow call the "reset to default" function directly using an url when I am logged in ?

[Xlars_dk]

Btw. my site is www.xlars.dk

[Xlars_dk]

that is http://www.xlars.dk/gallery/

[Xlars_dk]

Btw. I think I know the reason for the "hacking" .. some time back I had a test of my website where an automatic web application scanner program crawled my site to show possible exploits. I faintly remember giving this application my password, so I think that it is this app who has filled in all these default numbers in all fields, and also deleted most of my images because I did not exclude anyting from the scan of my site.

Just to say that I do not think it is Coppermines fault that this happend .. but my own stupidity. I am quite sure this is what must have happened. Why would anyone want to hack my private site anyway.

I appreciate your help very much.