Coh Faces links to Paragonwiki?
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Posted on: 2011-12-19 14:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Yes.
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Mkay. Is it down? Is it decommissioned? Is it on hiatus? Did gremlins crap on the server?
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Yes.
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I believe TonyV has been doing some work on it since their server issues last month.
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The titan server got hacked, and as I recall the exploit was traced to faces, which was running some of the oldest code on the server as I recall. So it's the last bit to go back up and this is Tony's hobby, not job.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I believe TonyV has been doing some work on it since their server issues last month.
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CoH Faces was based off an ancient copy of a framework called CodeIgniter. Worse yet, it was a modified version of CI, so it can't be simply upgraded, as the site breaks when you wipe out the modifications. Even worse, it uses several deprecated features of PHP, which cause lots of warnings with the latest version, and means it will break entirely in the next major PHP release.
That and we strongly suspect that it was the weak link that the attackers got in through.
Tony's been trying to fix it as he gets time, but it's a massive amount of work that involves going through the entire code base. It's not quite as labor intensive as a full rewrite, but it's close. That and there are other issues that he has to deal with as well that are taking priority at the moment.
There's been some internal discussion that the site may simply be dropped as a result, but no official decision has been made on that yet. At this point I'd say it's a "maybe". If there is someone who wants CoH Faces up and running, is experienced with PHP, and with CodeIgniter in particular, and is willing to invest a serious amount of time in it, contact TonyV with your info.
By experienced I mean some non-trivial PHP knowledge in writing secure code, not just hacking together a script for a home page. We don't want a repeat of what happened with it last time.
Aha. I knew they were hacked, but I didn't know Faces was the culprit. Thanks guys! /thread
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Which is to say...
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Did gremlins crap on the server?
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