UnsignedThread Set-Up & Docs

Posted on: May 19th, 2012 by IcyApril No Comments

The tool is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence. This work is provided as-is, no warranties or guaranties in any way shape or form.

Download (V0.2 Beta) | About

Set-up:

A) PHP Files; Upload the files to you web server to a directory of your choosing:

Download and upload the files from the link above. Alternatively WGET and upload the files.

B) MySQL/Config:

You will need to edit the first few lines of “connect.php” file in the includes folder include your MySQL details and preferences:

/* Database config */

$db_host        = 'localhost'; // In most cases you should leave this alone.
$db_user        = 'root'; // MySQL username.
$db_pass        = ''; // MySQL password.
$db_database    = 'unsignedthread'; // MySQL database name.

/* User config */

$installed = FALSE; // IMPORTANT: Change this to $installed == TRUE; after your first login to the management console.

$sitename = 'Site Name'; // Signed name goes here!
$auth_salt = 'Vux&9+k*@MpgI-{[S;ZHbB}TM]`j+fC]F_8G&xdw4_.:kFvxdf'; // IMPORTANT - change this to a random string, random length, punctuation, letters and numbers. If this is changed after installed, old posts may not readable…

$initialadminusername = 'admin'; // CHANGE THESE VARIABLES TO YOUR INITIAL USERNAME
$initialadminpassword = 'admin'; // AND PASSWORD (after set-up I advise you comment these lines out!)

$deleteold = TRUE; //CHANGE TO FALSE TO DISABLE AUTO CLEAN-UPS

/* Database config */

$db_host = 'localhost'; // In most cases you should leave this alone.

$db_user = 'root'; // MySQL username.

$db_pass = ''; // MySQL password.

$db_database = 'unsignedthread'; // MySQL database name.

/* User config */

$installed = FALSE; // IMPORTANT: Change this to $installed == TRUE; after your first login to the management console.

$sitename = 'Site Name'; // Signed name goes here!

$auth_salt = 'Vux&9+k*@MpgI-{[S;ZHbB}TM]`j+fC]F_8G&xdw4_.:kFvxdf'; // IMPORTANT - change this to a random string, random length, punctuation, letters and numbers. If this is changed after installed, old posts may not readable…

$initialadminusername = 'admin'; // CHANGE THESE VARIABLES TO YOUR INITIAL USERNAME

$initialadminpassword = 'admin'; // AND PASSWORD (after set-up I advise you comment these lines out!)

$deleteold = TRUE; //CHANGE TO FALSE TO DISABLE AUTO CLEAN-UPS

Next go to the the URL where you have installed this service.

Check everything works, then go back into the includes/connect.php file to change the installed value to true:

$installed = TRUE; // IMPORTANT: Change this to $installed == TRUE; after your first login to the managment console.

1	$installed = TRUE; // IMPORTANT: Change this to $installed == TRUE; after your first login to the managment console.

C: Done.

Yes, no more steps, you’re done!

History:

V0.1 Alpha – 19/5/2012

Initial release.

V0.2 Alpha – 19/5/2012

XSS venerabilities (as pointed out by LeakDirectory) has been repaired.

Tags: anonymous, desk, free, help, open, software, source, unsignedthread
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VirginMedia UK ThePirateBay Censorship Network Analysis

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by IcyApril No Comments

I was requested to perform a series of basic tests to analyse the scale of censorship of ThePirateBay in the UK.

Evading the censorship regime of the UK™:

Just use Tor, or go to tpb.pirateparty.org.uk, or use a VPN, folks; not hard.

In short:

The client is redirected to know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150) by a high level local router upon detecting a connection to 194.71.107.15 (thepiratebay.se’s IP Address), which will issue the blocked message, or in the case of SSL/TLS usage the connection will simply be dropped.

More conclusions:

It is an IP level ban, does not effect DNS queries. This means that changing your DNS servers has no effect on bypassing the censorship.

Using secure connections has no effect against the block, however a block message will not be returned when the connection is dropped.

For the record, access to open proxies and bypass methods designed specifically for circumventing this can still be used.

The classical IWF block servers were not used (it is not evident whether they are currently used at all):

Name: webcache1-know.server.virginmedia.net
Address: 62.30.249.129
Name: webcache2-know.server.virginmedia.net
Address: 62.30.249.130
Name: webcache3-know.server.virginmedia.net
Address: 62.30.249.131

However this one was used in one traceroute: wb7301a.network.virginmedia.net

Although DPI is not used on censoring TPB, it is evident it is used to curb file sharing by reducing the speed of torrents.

Full tests:

First with custom DNS servers:

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v thepiratebay.se
* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: thepiratebay.se
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
< 
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html">here</A>
</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0
iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://thepiratebay.se
* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 curl -v https://thepiratebay.se
iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v 194.71.107.15
* About to connect() to 194.71.107.15 port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: 194.71.107.15
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
< 
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html">here</A>
</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0
iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://194.71.107.15
* About to connect() to 194.71.107.15 port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
^Z
[2]+  Stopped                 curl -v https://194.71.107.15
iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute thepiratebay.se
traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1)  29.450 ms  8.924 ms  20.360 ms
 2  brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201)  33.621 ms  17.874 ms  32.046 ms
 3  brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73)  16.348 ms  14.903 ms  17.703 ms
 4  manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186)  29.426 ms  33.668 ms  52.570 ms
 5  know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150)  40.615 ms  18.116 ms  16.336 ms
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
^Z
[3]+  Stopped                 traceroute thepiratebay.se
iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.230.201
traceroute to google.com (74.125.230.201), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1)  32.951 ms  9.567 ms  20.705 ms
 2  brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201)  12.710 ms  20.007 ms  14.646 ms
 3  brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73)  9.606 ms  16.312 ms  12.481 ms
 4  manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186)  10.914 ms  10.744 ms  20.742 ms
 5  tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.163.70)  45.974 ms  20.913 ms  59.188 ms
 6  158-14-250-212.static.virginmedia.com (212.250.14.158)  85.627 ms  74.053 ms  55.951 ms
 7  209.85.240.63 (209.85.240.63)  21.449 ms  18.760 ms  27.092 ms
 8  209.85.253.196 (209.85.253.196)  30.143 ms  36.374 ms  22.359 ms
 9  209.85.242.79 (209.85.242.79)  31.734 ms  137.841 ms  32.511 ms
10  209.85.242.49 (209.85.242.49)  61.601 ms  27.032 ms  31.797 ms
11  par08s09-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.230.201)  39.976 ms  34.862 ms  28.435 ms

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v thepiratebay.se

* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 80 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)

> GET / HTTP/1.1

> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5

> Host: thepiratebay.se

> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found

< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end

<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>

<H1>302 Moved</H1>

The document has moved

</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://thepiratebay.se

* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 443 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

[1]+ Stopped curl -v https://thepiratebay.se

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v 194.71.107.15

* About to connect() to 194.71.107.15 port 80 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)

> GET / HTTP/1.1

> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5

> Host: 194.71.107.15

> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found

< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end

<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>

<H1>302 Moved</H1>

The document has moved

</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://194.71.107.15

* About to connect() to 194.71.107.15 port 443 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

[2]+ Stopped curl -v https://194.71.107.15

iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute thepiratebay.se

traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1) 29.450 ms 8.924 ms 20.360 ms

2 brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201) 33.621 ms 17.874 ms 32.046 ms

3 brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73) 16.348 ms 14.903 ms 17.703 ms

4 manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186) 29.426 ms 33.668 ms 52.570 ms

5 know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150) 40.615 ms 18.116 ms 16.336 ms

6 * * *

7 * * *

8 * * *

9 * * *

10 * * *

11 * * *

[3]+ Stopped traceroute thepiratebay.se

iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute google.com

traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.230.201

traceroute to google.com (74.125.230.201), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1) 32.951 ms 9.567 ms 20.705 ms

2 brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201) 12.710 ms 20.007 ms 14.646 ms

3 brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73) 9.606 ms 16.312 ms 12.481 ms

4 manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186) 10.914 ms 10.744 ms 20.742 ms

5 tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.163.70) 45.974 ms 20.913 ms 59.188 ms

6 158-14-250-212.static.virginmedia.com (212.250.14.158) 85.627 ms 74.053 ms 55.951 ms

7 209.85.240.63 (209.85.240.63) 21.449 ms 18.760 ms 27.092 ms

8 209.85.253.196 (209.85.253.196) 30.143 ms 36.374 ms 22.359 ms

9 209.85.242.79 (209.85.242.79) 31.734 ms 137.841 ms 32.511 ms

10 209.85.242.49 (209.85.242.49) 61.601 ms 27.032 ms 31.797 ms

11 par08s09-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.230.201) 39.976 ms 34.862 ms 28.435 ms

This test was completed on VirginMedia’s own DNS servers:

iMac:~ mjsa$ ping thepiratebay.se
PING thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
^Z
[7]+  Stopped                 ping thepiratebay.se
iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v thepiratebay.se
* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: thepiratebay.se
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
< 
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html">here</A>
</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0
iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://thepiratebay.se
* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 194.71.107.15... connected
* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
^Z
[8]+  Stopped                 curl -v https://thepiratebay.se
iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute thepiratebay.se
traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1)  10.636 ms  10.570 ms  8.195 ms
 2  brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201)  8.758 ms  19.447 ms  14.756 ms
 3  brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73)  10.707 ms  10.263 ms  30.043 ms
 4  manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186)  23.510 ms  14.261 ms  18.359 ms
 5  know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150)  22.592 ms  26.861 ms  19.084 ms
 6  * * *
 7  *^Z
[9]+  Stopped                 traceroute thepiratebay.se

iMac:~ mjsa$ ping thepiratebay.se

PING thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Request timeout for icmp_seq 3

Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

[7]+ Stopped ping thepiratebay.se

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v thepiratebay.se

* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 80 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 80 (#0)

> GET / HTTP/1.1

> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5

> Host: thepiratebay.se

> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found

< Location: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end

<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>

<H1>302 Moved</H1>

The document has moved

</BODY></HTML>

* Closing connection #0

iMac:~ mjsa$ curl -v https://thepiratebay.se

* About to connect() to thepiratebay.se port 443 (#0)

* Trying 194.71.107.15... connected

* Connected to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) port 443 (#0)

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

[8]+ Stopped curl -v https://thepiratebay.se

iMac:~ mjsa$ traceroute thepiratebay.se

traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 cpc20-warw12-2-0-gw.3-2.cable.virginmedia.com (213.107.183.1) 10.636 ms 10.570 ms 8.195 ms

2 brhm-core-2a-ae3-2188.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.103.201) 8.758 ms 19.447 ms 14.756 ms

3 brhm-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.73) 10.707 ms 10.263 ms 30.043 ms

4 manc-bb-1b-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.174.186) 23.510 ms 14.261 ms 18.359 ms

5 know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150) 22.592 ms 26.861 ms 19.084 ms

6 * * *

7 *^Z

[9]+ Stopped traceroute thepiratebay.se

External sources:

Another TraceRoute I found on the VirginMedia forums:

powerhouse ~ # traceroute 194.71.107.15
traceroute to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.780 ms 1.224 ms 1.738 ms
2 host82-14-174-5.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.174.5) 13.447 ms 14.129 ms 14.870 ms
3 host82-14-172-113.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.172.113) 15.146 ms 15.781 ms 16.753 ms
4 host82-14-174-97.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.174.97) 17.834 ms 18.241 ms 18.985 ms
5 manc-core-2a-xe-1110-0.network.virginmedia.net (86.28.65.49) 20.197 ms 21.660 ms 22.380 ms
6 manc-bb-1a-ae12-0.network.virginmedia.net (82.15.206.245) 23.101 ms 11.141 ms 11.573 ms
7 manc-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.187.178) 12.743 ms 14.515 ms 14.714 ms
8 know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150) 17.164 ms 17.884 ms 18.591 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *

powerhouse ~ # traceroute 194.71.107.15

traceroute to 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.780 ms 1.224 ms 1.738 ms

2 host82-14-174-5.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.174.5) 13.447 ms 14.129 ms 14.870 ms

3 host82-14-172-113.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.172.113) 15.146 ms 15.781 ms 16.753 ms

4 host82-14-174-97.not-set-yet.ntli.net (82.14.174.97) 17.834 ms 18.241 ms 18.985 ms

5 manc-core-2a-xe-1110-0.network.virginmedia.net (86.28.65.49) 20.197 ms 21.660 ms 22.380 ms

6 manc-bb-1a-ae12-0.network.virginmedia.net (82.15.206.245) 23.101 ms 11.141 ms 11.573 ms

7 manc-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.187.178) 12.743 ms 14.515 ms 14.714 ms

8 know-core-1b-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.150) 17.164 ms 17.884 ms 18.591 ms

9 * * *

10 * * *

Another from RegHardware:

...
5 leed-bb-1a-ae10-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.21) 15.377 ms 15.880 ms 14.473 ms
6 know-core-1a-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.146) 34.626 ms 16.189 ms 39.921 ms
7 wb7301a.network.virginmedia.net (62.30.0.204) 18.366 ms 17.636 ms 18.261 ms
8 brhm-bb-1a-ge-720-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.30.249.46) 18.404 ms 20.559 ms 19.738 ms
...

...

5 leed-bb-1a-ae10-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.21) 15.377 ms 15.880 ms 14.473 ms

6 know-core-1a-pc200.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.146) 34.626 ms 16.189 ms 39.921 ms

7 wb7301a.network.virginmedia.net (62.30.0.204) 18.366 ms 17.636 ms 18.261 ms

8 brhm-bb-1a-ge-720-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.30.249.46) 18.404 ms 20.559 ms 19.738 ms

...

Tags: block, censorship, thepiratebay, tpb, traceroute, uk, virginmedia
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TPCrawler Source & Set-up

Posted on: May 6th, 2012 by IcyApril No Comments

The tool is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence. Note; this tool was created with the intent it is used to mirror content from artists that wish to get exposed or human rights workers who wish to make their findings known, who likewise offer their work up in a Copyright Free sense; free to share; CopyLeft, if you will; and not for the intent of illegal piracy. You can utilise the blacklist feature, and use the tool to only mirror content which is legal to download by modifying the script. This tool only mirrors “Magnet URLs”, which are essentially just hashes that point to a file, and cannot download/mirror any copyright material in any way on its own (unless you somehow own copyright on a computer hash). If any illegal magnets do creep though your filter, you can delete them and not download the files. Furthermore I do not host any live version of this tool at all, any live version is operated by people who are not personally affiliated to me in any way, all screenshots on this site have been obtained from these sites. Furthermore this work is provided as-is, no warranties or guaranties in any way shape or form. I do not directly profit commercially from this script in any way.

Download (V0.4 Beta) | About

Set-up:

A) PHP Files; Upload the files to you web server to a directory of your choosing:

Download and upload the files from the link above. Alternatively WGET and upload the files.

B) MySQL:

You will need to edit the “connect.php” file to include your MySQL details:

<?php
/* Database config */

$db_host        = 'localhost'; // In most cases you should leave this alone.
$db_user        = 'root'; // MySQL username.
$db_pass        = ''; // MySQL password.
$db_database    = 'tpcrawler'; // MySQL database name.

/* End config */

$link = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_pass) or die('Unable to establish a DB connection');

mysql_select_db($db_database,$link);
mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF8");/* Database config */

<?php

/* Database config */

$db_host = 'localhost'; // In most cases you should leave this alone.

$db_user = 'root'; // MySQL username.

$db_pass = ''; // MySQL password.

$db_database = 'tpcrawler'; // MySQL database name.

/* End config */

$link = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_pass) or die('Unable to establish a DB connection');

mysql_select_db($db_database,$link);

mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF8");/* Database config */

B Mirroring:

Simply open your web browser and go to www.yourdomain.com/tpcrawlerdirectory/crawler.php; changing the directory and domain name to your choosing.

To run the mirroring, even when no one is connected to the site, on a Linux server run this command: php /directory/to/crawler.php | /dev/null &

3 Browse:

Go to the web page where you have installed TPCrawler and you can browse what the script has mirrored!

History:

V0.1 Alpha – 6/5/2012

Initial release.

V0.2 Alpha – 6/5/2012

“Go to page” fix released.

V0.3 Alpha – 7/5/2012

Fixed page number count.
Added version count.

V0.4 Alpha – 12/05/2012

Reported issue of crawler stopping after navigation off the page has been fixed.

No more annoying, constantly loading iframe!

Tags: download, link, magnet, mirror, the pirate crawler, thepiratebay, thepiratecrawler, torrent, tpc, tpcrawler
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How to fix WordPress permissions, the easy way (using SSH).

Posted on: February 4th, 2012 by IcyApril No Comments

WordPress demanding FTP details every time you upgrade?
So all you need to do is SSH in to your VPS/server and run these commands, be sure to replace /var/www/ with your WWW root, and wordpress with your WordPress directory.

Note: If you use FTP then just change your permissions to 775. You might want to try the repair permissions function in cPanel.

So what we are doing here, is firstly changing the permissions of the directory, then change ownership to www-data:

cd /var/www/
chmod 775 -R wordpress
chown www-data:www-data wordpress -R

Tags: 775, easy, ftp, permissions, root, server, ssh, update, vps, wordpress, www
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How to show images and full text as opposed to “continue reading” excerpt in WordPress.

Posted on: December 17th, 2011 by IcyApril 2 Comments

This tutorial requires an intermediate Wordpress knowledge, and perhaps a bit of PHP.

1. Go into your theme editor, select your theme and open the index.php file.

2. Find a bit of code like:

<?php the_excerpt(‘Read more »’); ?>

or perhaps just

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

3. Replace it with this:

<?php the_content(); // Go away excerpt. : ( the_excerpt(‘Read more »’); ?>

Notes:

Sometimes you may find something like:

<!– Begin Loop –>
<!–?php include (THEMELIB . ‘/loop.php’); ?–>

In this case you simply need to edit the referenced file, loop.php. However make sure it isn’t something like header.php, sidebar.php or footer.php; you should know if it is the loop because it should kinda look like this:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”><h4>
<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4><p class=”details”>
<?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?></p>

<?php the_content(); ?>

</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>

<h4>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</h4>

<?php endif; ?>

I hope this post makes sense; if not drop a comment and I will be happy to help!

Tags: content, continue reading, excerpt, images, loop.php, php, text, wordpress
Posted in Internet, Programming, Web Design | 2 Comments »

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UnsignedThread Set-Up & Docs

Download (V0.2 Beta) | About

Set-up:

A) PHP Files; Upload the files to you web server to a directory of your choosing:

B) MySQL/Config:

C: Done.

History:

VirginMedia UK ThePirateBay Censorship Network Analysis

TPCrawler Source & Set-up

Download (V0.4 Beta) | About

Set-up:

A) PHP Files; Upload the files to you web server to a directory of your choosing:

B) MySQL:

B Mirroring:

3 Browse:

History:

How to fix WordPress permissions, the easy way (using SSH).

How to show images and full text as opposed to “continue reading” excerpt in WordPress.