Major Additions - Joomla for vBulletin (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - Bridge to the World's Most Popular CMS

Warning!!! An potential exploit has been found in this modification. The server that hosts vjoomla.com has been attacked several times. It is known to already be severely comprimised so at this time it is unclear whether the vulnerability lies in vJoomla, Joomla itself or the server. Until this is resolved to my satisfaction I am removing this modification. My apologies.


The modification WILL be re-released once this issue is resolved!

vJoomla is an offshoot of Joomla 1.0 that is designed to run in tandem with vbulletin. Unlike the main release it will not run without vbulletin - if you desire a CMS without a forum then use Joomla! instead. vJoomla is identical in most all regards to Joomla!

What vJoomla Does

• Provide a single session, single login interface to Joomla and vbulletin.
• Allows Joomla pages to be skinned by vbulletin's template engine.
• Maps Joomla usergroups to vbulletin usergroups.

What vJoomla Does Not Do

• It does not rewrite your templates for you - so you will need to go in currently and change relative links to images and pages to absolute links. This is most important in the style sheets and in the navbar template. This is something you need to do yourself rather than programmatically since no two sites are likely to be using the same style sheet and the same setup for these links.

Install Instructions

1. Log into your admincp
2. Close your forum
3. If your forums are at the root of your site move them elsewhere - the best location is probably /forum
4. Upload the files from the zip packages to their respective locations. There should be no overwrites.
5. Navigate to the root of your site and run the Joomla installer.
6. Go back to the admincp and install the Joomla product file
7. Now either copy the ./cpstyles, ./clientscript and ./images directory of the forum into the Joomla directory OR create symbolic links to those directories. The contents of the ./images directory of Joomla and vbulletin will need to be merged.

This is release candidate 2.

[Wulfnoth]

Does this modification works when Zoints SEO is installed?

[imported_hbs]

Originally Posted by Luky

For christs sake, this is like the 5th time, www.alchemist-team.net/vjoomla.html

I tried it at least 5 times and still getting the same error on stage 4 "The site has not been provided" followed by another message "Forum not found"

[Luky]

It would do, it wont be seo'd but.

[SkyCatcher]

Originally Posted by imported_hbs

I tried it at least 5 times and still getting the same error on stage 4 "The site has not been provided" followed by another message "Forum not found"

Find in install4.php

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
	$configArray['absolutePath'] = stripslashes(stripslashes($configArray['absolutePath']));

the line right below it I had to modify and I added my site manually (Probetreff) as such:

	$sitename = stripslashes(stripslashes('Probetreff'));

and that fixed the site not found error.

Give that a try and see if it works for you.

[imported_hbs]

Thanks SkyCatcher
It worked

[Michael Morris]

Hello. The server which hosts the vJoomla package - has been ssh tunnel attacked multiple times in the last week. The entry point appears to be in one of the Joomla directories. Whether this is due to a problem in Joomla or the mods made for vJoomla I do not know. As a precaution I will be taking the mod down for the present.

I need to do a complete reinstall of the server OS as soon as possible and upgrade all packages on the machine. Only once these vulnerabilities have been closed up can the mod be retested to see if it is the vector by which the attack was launched. I am not sure if this is the case. Until I am certain the product is safe to use however I will not make it available. I am sorry for any inconvenience this will no doubt cause.

[Paul M]

Moved to Graveyard, please contact a member of Staff to move it back when you are ready to reattach the modification.