Re: [Phpwiki-talk] My wiki has been corrupted by spammers

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Wookey:
> I used to have a nice wiki at http://balloonboard.org/wiki but it got filled
> up with wikispam :-(
> 
> You can see the old wiki at http://balloonboard.org/wikitest (which now just
> produces:
> lib/DbaDatabase.php:32: Fatal[256]:
> dba_open(/var/lib/phpwiki/phpwiki_pagedb.db2,c-): No such handler: db2
> 
> I tried to just revert the spammed changes but it didn't work as the
> database appeared to be corrupt. 
> 
> I eventually worked out that the content of the wiki is in a file called
> phpwiki_pagedb.db2
> 
> Is there any way I can extract the original wiki content form this dtaabase,
> preferably as formatted HTML, but as wikitext would also be fine.
> 
> How might I go about uncorrupting the database so I can put the wiki back?

Have you tried going to the Admin page and dumping the wiki from there?
 
> Does PHPwiki have authentication options to stop this sort of spammer abuse
> in the future?

Yes, lots. There are a half-dozen different ways you can authenticate users
in the current version.