Post-Hack Cleanup and Server Migration

Hi there.

Thanks for posting. Sorry to hear about the site hack.  Have you read through our support document on hacked sites:

http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/how_to_restore_hacked_sites.html

It has a lot of great information on getting things cleaned up and running again.  It actually sounds like you've done most of it already and I still recommend having a read.

To specifically get the links down the left side of your page back, you'll need to go into your backups from the old server and find the /cmsAdmin/data/schema folder and upload all those files to your new server. You'll want to have a quick look through to make sure malicious code hasn't been added to these files either.  

After uploading, log into CMS Builder again and click through to Admin -> Section Editor.  

You should now have all your links back.

Give this a shot and let me know how you make out.

Thanks!

Hi Ross,

Thank you very much for the link and the note about where the schema files were. Moving them over has worked wonderfully! All the admin and section links are back, and they all work when clicked on. The public facing side of the site looks like it is supposed to too.

It looks like the site has been successfully restored now :)

One last question, should the files generally be set to 644 and folders to 755? I want to make sure that I get that part right for sure!

Thank you for your assistance!

Jacob

Hi Jacob

Glad to hear everything is up and running again.

With permissions for your files and folders, I find letting the server give them all default permissions usually works best.  Basically, if the site is running and CMS Builder works, I don't change any permissions.

I do find that files usually get 644 and folders get 755 though so it sounds like your server is giving standard permissions by default anyway.

Keep us up to date with how you are making out.

Thanks!

Hi Ross,

Thanks for the tips about the permissions.

I've hit another problem migrating another hacked cms site (I have 3 total :/). I have cleaned up the files, and moved them over to the new server. Trying to get to the admin login give me this error:

loadINI: syntax error, unexpected '(' in **PATHHIDDEN**/cmsAdmin/data/schema/about_header.ini.php on line 2

To be clear, **PATHHIDDEN** is not what the actual message says there.

The about_header.ini.php file looks like this:

<?php

 /* This is a PHP data file */ if (!@$LOADSTRUCT) { die("This is not a program file."); }

return array (

  'menuName' => 'About',

  'menuOrder' => '5',

  'menuType' => 'menugroup',

);

?>

What might be doing that?

Thanks,

Jacob

Hi Jacob

We'll need to take a closer look at that one. Could you send in a support request:

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support_form.php

If you mention this post in the comments of the request, I can update the thread when we figure it out.

Thanks!

Hi Jacob

We'll need to take a closer look at that one. Could you send in a support request:

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support_form.php

If you mention this post in the comments of the request, I can update the thread when we figure it out.

Thanks!