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abhosts:
You should be talking to your web host and not MTN. Some tweaking can be done from the Server to Forestall this problem.

Best Regards

Could you share your tweak cuz it will go a long way to help a lot of Nigerian customers.
MTN's connection to the best of my knowledge cant keep authenticated sessions accross some pages. MTN cannot be used for RDP connections also.

Using proxy tunneling applications with your mtn connection will work but its not something I will recommend to just anyone.

This is not a cPanel + MTN issue. It happens with some other applications like the WHMCS billing system.

GLO has exactly the same issues.

These are ISP issues.

[quote author=big_leap link=topic=468925.msg6302289#msg6302289 date=1277806904]nigeria does not have any resident webhosts, all are mostly re sellers[/quote]Why are you contradicting yourself?
Can you explain what you mean by "resident"?

Yes it will work. Please correct this part of your code.

gdcomms:
<td><input type="text" id="subject"name=subject"/></td>

I have a question. Can a cracker pose as a good guy and share his extensions and plugins (that are malicious) to the open CMS community? Is there anything like QA/QC on modules?

gdcomms:
Dual here's my email: restoringh@yahoo.com

Waitinnnnggggg!

Thanks all!

No need for your email na. The post has been unblocked.

tundewoods:
Ok let me get this straight and correct. Is this about hosting with a Nigerian resident Host Reseller  VS hosting directly with a foreign hosting company ? I guess that is the actual scenarios that usually come into play in most cases. Well it all depends on the factors that determine your choice of hosting.

Personally experience shows that if you have direct access to a hosting company you are assured of peace of mind. 

Just so we are clear. Most "foreign host" companies don't have a dedicated server sitting in their office. So this idea of going for a "foreign host" company because you will have direct access is BS. Lets get the mentallity of "foreign" and "local" off our heads when it comes to webhosting.

There are different stages of webhosting
Shared,
Reseller,
Master Reseller,
VPS,
Dedicated Servers,
Colocation/Cages.

This is what is obtainable worldwide and it doesnt matter if it is Nigerian or not, if it wants to suck it will suck if it wants to be good it will be good.
The "Nigerian" factor doesnt come into hosting. You really need to see what crappy "foreign" companies do, oh well cuz of the Nigerian "oyibo" mentality we are caged in, we overlook 'em.

Just look for a good service in Nigeria or anywhere else and stick with it. Don't expect magic to happen cuz it wont.

bytci:
great post from dual, why not use a form to email service that will grab the user info from your form and email it to you. it will generate the codes for you without stressing yourself.

i use this service in this link for church www.kgrconline.com/joinaministry.html you can get the service free from this site www.mailjol.net

Thanks brotha but if we all used services like that in our early learning stages how would we learn?

I don type the code o. Bot has blocked it. Hope someone knows how to type codes here without being chopped. If/when seun comes online, I will ask him to unblock my post. If you drop your email, I can mail it to u.


Edit: its been unblocked
Now that's very fishy cuz seun is not online

When you're done and you are armed to the teeth, put this on the site. "This site cannot be defaced by Z3RO! Shame to the poor little bastardo in the basement. Algerian cracker kids suck as much donkey balls as Algerian footballers" 


Either of two things may happen. He either tears your site to pieces (i dont think he can, drupal aint stupid) or he slams his monitor against the wall and starts crying in frustration.

Ok here's the deal. I will write a simple form and  a php file to process the form. Please note I am not taking into consideration things like security (read up on google and implement the best way you can). I don't touch security issues in my examples because it gives the bad guys an idea of how I work.


Here's the form.

<form method="post" action="myprocessor.php">
<table>
<tr>
<td><label for ="firstname">First Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="firstname" name="firstname" /></td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td><label for ="lastname">Last Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="lastname" name="lastname" /></td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td><label for ="email">Email</label></td>
<td><input type="text" id="email" name="email" /></td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/></td>
<tr>
</table>
</form>


The PHP- myprocessor.php
<?php
//i am collecting the values from the form using the global POST
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

//we have gotten the form details over to php, now lets chunk them up into one message body
//the message variable holds what the email body will look like when u receive the mail
$message = "This are the details of the form submission\n" //the slash and "n" that you see there takes the focus to a new line
."First Name: $firstname\n"
."Last Name: $lastname\n"
."Email: $email\n";

//now lets get a subject for the email that will be sent
$subject = "Form submission";

//now declare your email as a variable, the email you want the stuff to be sent to
$mailto = "ceo.gdcomms@microsoft.com"; //amen

//add a header to get cleared by the likes of yahoo, gmail  e.t.c

$header = "From: $email\n"
. "Reply-To: $email\n";

//now lets play using the php mail function to send the data to your email

if(mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $header)){
echo "yes! we did it. form has been sent";
}
else{
else "ouch! there was an error";
}
?>


Thats all

I am hoping someone will use my codes to explain further.
I'm hoping the codes are bug-free too, didnt test it but i don't see a reason why it wont work 

Gdcomms, your problem lies in the first line - the form's "action".

Let me do some background explanation first. Html on its own cannot submit forms so putting the email address in the form's "action" will not do any good. Html deal more with presentation logic i.e what you see on the browser. Html then has to interact with a serverside language to deal with data processing or manipulation.

In the case of this form. You have used html to present the form to the user. Now html has done its part, it now has to interact with a serverside language like PHP to process the form when the user click submit. The form interacts with the PHP processor file through the form "action". So, you have to put the link to the php file in the form's "action". You also have to build that php file to do exactly what you want i.e process the submitted content and send to your mailbox.

I am not going to make your morning a swell one by giving you the exact code to work for your form, I will do a complete working example and leave you to figure out how to make it work in your case.

I have to give the example in my next post, I dont want to put everything in one post as I do not know how the anti-spam bot thinks.

Albato:
Hope fully this hacker will stay out of my way.

Hopefully he is not seeing your last post about your work in progress

The other 2 hours are spent doing other things like. . . being on the phone, spending some quality time getting frustrated over a bug or Nigeria's crappy internet connections, going to pee, laying on the bed wondering what a swell life I woulda had without computers.


The Nigerian attacks I see come from MTN IPs most times. That's why MTN's internet service is just cursed.

Donpuzo:
Who know's who is next, maybe DualCore

Client sites on my server? well yea it will be due to their errors.
But my server itself? LOL the cracker should dream on. I don't stay online 22 hrs a day for nothing

I have noticed though, whenever I set up a new server crackers try to get in. I see a lot of attacks being blocked and I just sit with coffee while I watch them try. Funny I see attacks trying to get in from some Nigerian connections.

ok, will mail you shortly.

here's my email sawyerrken at gmail dot com (any mail you're receiving in my name from any other email isnt me) .
will mail you shortly.

Actual photos please. Also provide necessary details so I can check if its blacklisted or not.

2006
Were you that bored?

tigerpaws:
A few hackers leave their email address on Hacked site; I know because I have seen it happen 

Those are not crackers, those are n00bs.

Pharoh:
Your sig is very funny and why are you hunting for promisee? The last time i checked his customers were in support of him.

Everything about her profile is scary that's why I'm talking to her a safe distance away from her claws.