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Apple Mac and PHPNuke

Posted October 14th, 2004 by doodlebug

Hi

I have a phpnuke webby The Wolds and a couple of mac users who try to access the site causes there IE to bomb with error 2.

Please please help - i'm struggling to find a solution.

Cheers

Doodlebug

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PHP-Nuke is not a good CMS

On December 29th, 2004 unixpenguin2004 says:

Time and time again PHP-Nuke has been proven exploitable at the roots. It constantly has problems like phpbb > 2.0.11. I wouldn't blame a Mac for not viewing PHP-Nuke correctly. PHP-Nuke needs serious improvement. One of my friends is designing a new portal system in light of the lack of good content management systems. It will feature some very innovative security features. He constantly audits the code, so it will have less problems with projects such as PHP-Nuke, who tend to jump the gun in order to implement many features most of us don't need.

Avoid PHP-Nuke

On December 29th, 2004 mike says:

PHP-Nuke has more security holes than Windows. That's why I switched this site to Drupal. With Nuke, we were getting hacked every few weeks.

The Nuke code is horribly written and does no error checking. Variables from the request URI are passed directly to a SQL query with no quoting, which makes it extremely vulnerable to SQL injection hacks. Even with the patched so-called "secure" versions it was still getting hacked.

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On December 29th, 2004 unixpenguin2004 says:

Was I right, or was I right? Personally I'd rather use Drupal or AppState's phpWebSite. phpWebSite is designed better from the ground up and has few security problems to date. It is also easier to install then PHP-Nuke and has a lot more functions. You can see a working version of phpWebSite in which I have modified at http://www.unixdevil.org. Drupal's look and feel can be demonstrated by Mac Megasite, which runs it. Cheers.

I just took a very quick look

On October 14th, 2004 mike says:

I just took a very quick look & it's messed up in Camino. It looks like the tables aren't closed properly - instead of 3 columns, the content appears under the left sidebar followed by the right sidebar. It looks OK in Safari, though.