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2. OK thanks

1. Installed 10 over 9 as suggested and works.
I'll keep an eye out to confirm errors stop.

1.
I just purchased SMF Gallery pro v10 (my licence had expired I have 9.0.8 on there at the moment which was installed Wednesday, 30 August 2023.

So, as you do, I went to uninstall the existing one prior to installing the new one.

Well, it's not happy...
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I am wondering if this may be connected to the issues I raised in the thread here:
https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php/topic,10443.msg46683.html#msg46683

How would I best attack this?

2.
I purchased the Pro 10 version and have been able to download the file BUT have not received any email with a licence key. Or am I reading that wrong and a key is required only for the extra $ for copyright removal?
(I didn't purchase that as I don't need that - happy to have copyright on there)

AH OK and it has to be a base64 thing I assume.

Anyway seems to be resolved mate thanks for all your help.

The icons I mean are the custom icons - don't worry about that I'll figure it out.

My host says PHP was throwing a fatal error because the virus scanner quarantined several files.
In any event that seems to be sorted now.

But when you have a chance (not urgent) if you could explain what a base 64 line is, what it does and what would be the impact of removing it?
eg
die(base64_decode('UG93ZXJlZCBieSBHYWxsZXJ5IEZvciBTTUYgIG1hZGUgYnkgdmJnYW1lcjQ1IGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuc21maGFja3MuY29t'));

Thank you.

The gallery link: https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/index.php?action=gallery
as you can see currently generates a 500 error.

HISTORY

I was getting the 500 error as above and the error log contained:

Guest
 (IP address)
 d62cd46c0b4c4ffa6255407149e35b63
 https://gsx1400owners.org/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=135
 /home/gsxowner/public_html/forum/index.php (Line 455)  Backtrace information

Type of error: General
Error messageSelect
2: require_once(/home/gsxowner/public_html/forum/Sources/Gallery2.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

One of my fellow admins who's more conversant with the backend side of things, said:

there is a file  called Gallery2.php keeps deleting itself, I have no idea why
I keep putting it back, and they gallery works again. but it just goes again.

I realised I was using a previous version of gallery pro so downloaded and installed the latest version (as at the date of this post). This seemed to fix the issue. Briefly.

Presumably this reinstall meant that, once again, there was a Gallery2.php in the directory again but yes, it soon disappeared.

Ultimately tracked this down to

CPGuard is detecting Gallery2.php as possibly malicious because of some base64 string manipulations.
The match is: {HEX}Malware.Expert.php.ini.ini.ini.ini.ini.ini.chmod.base64.decode.base64.decode.php

My host added the file to the whitelist so it's not disappearing any more.
HOWEVER the 500 error persists.

I again checked with my host and they have confirmed

The file is there and permissions all look normal.
I can't see a reason for the error 500 being logged in the domlogs or in the LiteSpeed global log.
Everything looks normal on this end, nothing tripping in Mod_Sec (WAF) either.

So my questions are:

• What might be causing this error, and how should I proceed to address it?
• What's a base64 line? Should it be in that file?
• Is every instance of gallery2.php identical or is it something that changes between installations?
• What does Gallery2.php actually DO?

It was suggested that (assuming the gallery lite version) I should remove line 384-ish
die(base64_decode('UG93ZXJlZCBieSBHYWxsZXJ5IEZvciBTTUYgIG1hZGUgYnkgdmJnYW1lcjQ1IGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuc21maGFja3MuY29t'));
but what does this line do? And what would be the impact of removing it?

I'm unsure whether the same applies to the Pro version so seeking guidance here before I touch anything.


I'd like to extend my appreciation to @vbgamer for his support this far.

So to clarify what it is - it's basically a big collection of emoji images (aka smileys, aka emoticons), which are separated into tabs.
Is that correct?  If so -

Is it SMF 2.1.x ready?  (I run 2.0.17 at the moment, soon 2.0.18 and later will go to 2.1)
Is the emoji library editable?
-  add and delete emojis?
-  create, add and delete tabs in the emoji list?
-  move emoticons between various tabs?
-  customise the text equivalent for the emoji?
  By which I mean
:D for
and so on.

I've had SMF Gallery Pro installed for quite a while (since 2015 I think?) Anyway back in the day when I installed it I also had to install a mod called "SMF Gallery Pro SSI"

I can't even recall what it did...except that I needed it at the time.
Is that still a thing?
If so when is it needed?
And if I do need it, where do I find it?

I've just renewed my licence, and will be installing Gallery Pro 9.0b

as per attachment above mate. I have tried myself.  It doesn't even get to anywhere that multiple images can be selected for upload