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Hallo!

Since last Saturday I miss my blog, normally to find under http://www.ost-impuls.de

I noticed it yesterday evening.
There is only a white page with this notice:

serendipity error: could not include /home/joerg/www/joerg//serendipity_config_local.inc.php - exiting.
Please create the file yourself or check permissions

So no direct way for me to login.

I found that relating thread, where was discussed a fault of the host provider:
http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15821

And today I read a post from today (1th june 10) and yesterday about a virus or trojan, which allowed someone to find out the login data and password to log in the cms.
It is here:
http://blog.dynamicdrive.de/

I have no other clue yet. What could be the reason for this?

What can I do now?

End of my day here in the states, but you might try FTP-ing a fresh copy of serendipity ... also, change your ftp credentials as that has a higher probability of hacking than your serendipity admin credentials, especially if they modified the file serendipity_config_local.inc.php.

I have encountered exactly the same problem, and can report this;

serendipity error: could not include /var/www/vhosts/alexisevanoff.dk/subdomains/blog/httpdocs//serendipity_config_local.inc.php - exiting.
Please create the file yourself or check permissions

which makes no sense.

Trying to find a reason AND FIX FOR THIS. If anyone finds a reason and fix before me please write me quickly.

Hi!

Does serendipity_config_local.inc.php still exist on your servers? This is the file that holds the serendipity database configuration information.

If the file is missing, you might want to check your HTTP access and FTP transfer logs to see when the file was acecssed/removed.

If you were using Serendipity prior to 1.5.3, it might be that you were attacked by someone attacking you with the security hole that was the reason for serendipity 1.5.3.

Regards,
Garvin

Thank you for reactions.

The rss-feed-function is still working. After actualisation of my blog feed I see now my last posting from 28th May.

@Garvin
The file serendipity_config_local.inc.php still exists, yes, with the old date of last change, as I have backuped with Filezilla.

Where I see a change, which cannot be from my works is in the folder templates_c (with the date: 29.05.2010, 20:50) behind a folder templates. At that time I was not in internet. But may be changes because of automatic processes which concern cache and backups.

So access with FileZilla is possible.

And right now I find out, that my blog is visible again

I do not know the reason and have not yet spoken with my folk, on whose server the blog is running, if he has done something on it.

When I find out, what happend, I will tell you.

Hi!

Yes, templates_c/ is automatically updated. Usually you shouldn't worry about those timestamps changing inside those files.

If the error went away on its own, I can only assume problems with the filesystem or a possible server outage...definitely the error meant that serendipity_Config_local.inc.php had been missing or was not readable...

Regards,
Garvin

The hoster of my blog do not knows the reason for absence of my blog. He reinstalled PHP (the version that already was: 5.2.6.1) and then it functioned again. Other websites on the same server hadn´t such problem of absence.

Then I updated from 1.41 to 1.53 with FileZilla.
After a calling-up of my blog there was no change to see, so that I copied all main folders to the root folder manually.
Then it worked, I got that Update notice, but I got several error notices (made a screen-shot) after clicking on automatic update, according bundled-libs-folder and folders in deeper levels of it.

I noticed then no errors in the backend, but maybe they will occur later.
I change according that point to another thread here in forum, because its another topic.

Also this is only on the plates rim:
Because I copied the main folders of S9Y-Update into the wrong level, I wanted to delete the copied folders again. But it didn´t worked, nevertheless I had gotten the allowance to delete folders in my blog-area and the new folders of version 1.53 where in right order.

I have no idea, why I cant delete those folders.
Do you have an idea, why?

Hi!

If you made a screenshot, why not show it to us? ))

If you did not see the updated immediatel,y it sounds to me as if your FTP access might be proxied somehow, and does not reflect the real filesystem. Maybe some kind of NFS or Raid setup from your hoster, who shadow copies some files?

I have no idea, why I cant delete those folders.
Do you have an idea, why?

What's the error message? You might want to ask your provider why you cannot access the files with your privileges,...

Regards,
Garvin

I did´nt got any error message when trying to delete folders with there files. The files were deleted, but not the folders.

Today I found yet the folder plugins_, which had yet all files and folders. First I deleted the files and then the folders and so I could delete also the folders up to "plugins_".

But the other folders as like bundled-libs_, deployment_, htmlarea_ und template_c und uploads_
I can´t delete.

... You might want to ask your provider why you cannot access the files with your privileges,...

I asked my fellow, who´s web space I use, to ask his provider about it.

I want to add this time the screenshot of the error message after my update. (There you could see: So only with the bundled-libs_-folder sth. is wrong.).

But it doesn´t work.