Am i beeing attacked?

[MindTrix]

A website i have just setup in the past couple of days has gone down and showing a database error out of the blue.

I have now got 200 emails and rising every second with errors like this...


Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'eon' (10061)
D:\inetpub\vhosts\removedmysiteaddy.com\httpdocs\f orum\includes\class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Saturday, May 17th 2008 @ 12:09:16 PM
Error Date : Saturday, May 17th 2008 @ 12:09:17 PM
Script : http://www.removedmysiteaddy.com/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp ;t=25 (http://www.somethinghere.com/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp ;t=25)
Referrer :
IP Address : 86.13.79.217
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Whats going on?

[Lynne]

Check out this page in the manual: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/cantconnect

[MindTrix]

So its my hosts problem? The site has been up and running fine for days now, then bam, it just crashed like this

[Lynne]

Well, either you changed something (inadvertantly) and caused the problem, or it's a problem on your hosts end.

(Take a look at the script url... do you really have all those "amp;" in there? That isn't correct at all.)

[MindTrix]

The only thing i have recently installed was a mod from here, a guest tracking one. It's been working fine all day, then i would say 6 hours later, this is happening.

[Lynne]

Are you on a shared server? Do they have a server status page?

[Jase2]

The best thing you can do is contact your host. Or disable all mods then see if the problem persists.

[MindTrix]

I believe i am on a shared server, and the server status page just says server is ok.

Thing is the site was working fine for hours after i last edited, and out of the blue this has happened, and i dont have a clue where them amp;amp; have come from

--------------- Added 1211053797 at 1211053797 ---------------

Sent my hose a support ticket, now just waiting forever for a reply.

I cannot disable any mods because the whole site is down. Only my default homepage is working, anything forum related is not.

[Lynne]

If you can ftp to your site, you can disable your mods in your config.php file: edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

(BTW, your site is still linked in your first post. All you did was change the url we see, not the clickable one.)

[MindTrix]

Thanks for the heads up!

Added that code but still no joy, dead site. And still no support ticket reply! over an hour now

[Lynne]

Yep, link fixed. ;)

What sort of hacks have you added? Do you recall any that would do any sort of character replacement? The reason I ask, is your error says this line:
mysql_connect() [&lt;a href='function.mysql-connect'&gt;function.mysql-connect&lt;/a&gt;]: .......Normally, it would not have the "&lt;" and "&gt;" in there. See this thread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=179131&highlight=mysql_connect) that shows a similar error and notice how it start the error out as:
mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.I don't know if this is a php issue or a mysql issue or something you did to your site, but it is worth noting.

[MindTrix]

The last one i added was 'Track Guests'

Everything was working fine though, the mod too.

Also the &lt and other weird sign arent actually there and dont show when i edit my post, only show up when its posted, weird.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The site www.removedmysiteaddy.com (http://www.removedmysiteaddy.com) does not open at all for me.

[Andreas]

I guess that's because he removed his sites address ;-)