May 2013

Advanced Login Deadlock Protection

How to gain access to a site that has no template It is technically possible to remove templates or login tokens from the module and lock yourself out of the website. The module has protection from this event in two ways. No Template Detection If the module detects that you are updating the module settings and have totally removed the templates, it will detect this state and use a default template when accessing the front end of the module. Load Default Template URL Additionally if you were to access your login page with this module on, and found that you do not have any buttons to press for access, you can revert to a login protection mode by adding some text to the URL. This will force the module to display some basic login details. Just add: “?loaddefault=true” (without the “”) to the URL with the module on it. So… Read More »Advanced Login Deadlock Protection

DotNetNuke can’t upgrade as Host Login does not work

DotNetNuke Upgrade Fails. Cannot login with Host. If you are trying to upgrade your DotNetNuke site and found that you are presented with the Welcome to the DotNetNuke Upgrade Page, but can’t login with your Host (SuperUser) account. DotNetNuke Upgrade – Version 06.02.07 Current Version – 06.02.05 Welcome to the DotNetNuke Upgrade Page. The first step is to choose the language you wish to use for the Upgrade. You are about to upgrade your website to a more recent version of the DotNetNuke application. Applying upgrades on a consistent basis is the best way to ensure that you are protecting the integrity of your investment and the security of your users and assets. Before proceeding with the automated upgrade process please ensure that: you have made plans to first attempt this process in a staging environment you have documented your current installation characteristics including doing research on the compatibility of… Read More »DotNetNuke can’t upgrade as Host Login does not work

.zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted

Green files and folders on Windows 7 indicate they are encrypted. Usually this is a function of a program that will make these files encrypted for a reason. Security is usually the reason. But… An interesting little bug in the process of creating a .zip file on a mac and moving it over to a Windows computer. When a .zip file is created according to standards for .zip files found here: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT They specify that .zip archives include a tag informing about itself to the program trying to decompress the archive. This tag information is known as the “version made by” and as the name suggest, it would tag information about the program version of .zip and the files system in use. 0 – MS-DOS and OS/2 (FAT / VFAT / FAT32 file systems) 1 – Amiga 2 – OpenVMS 3 – UNIX 4 – VM/CMS 5 – Atari ST… Read More ».zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted