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Provider blocking port 80 -- scoop woes
By hoarycripple , Section Help! [] Posted on Tue Jan 08, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST

My provider started blocking port 80 because of all the IIS worms that were running amok. Now this causes a slight problem with scoop...

My url changed from "www.crippl3.net" to "www.crippl3.net:26"

The problem is, when a new user is created, he/she gets an email with a confirmatory url. This url does not contain the ":26" port. Where can I change the configuration so that the port is included? I tried changing the "site url" var, but I don't think that worked....i'm going to try it again and check it out...

Thanks for the help!
Crip.

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Provider blocking port 80 -- scoop woes | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)

site_url is correct (none / 0) (#1)
by hurstdog on Wed Jan 09, 2002 at 08:53:21 AM PST

The email generated gets the confirm url directly from the site url. In scoop block notation, the confirm url is:

|site_url||rootdir|/newuser/confirm/|nick|/|confirm_string|

So change it, then try to send the email. It should have the port number in it. Also, what version of scoop are you running?

-hurstdog

This does not work... by hoarycripple, 01/09/2002 12:48:05 PM PST (none / 0)

oops... by hoarycripple, 01/09/2002 01:32:35 PM PST (none / 0)

.6...! by hurstdog, 01/09/2002 05:23:45 PM PST (none / 0)

Hey, cool. by hoarycripple, 01/09/2002 09:08:24 PM PST (none / 0)
"achem" [nt] by cp, 01/10/2002 09:57:14 PM PST (none / 0)

Fixed! (none / 0) (#4)
by hoarycripple on Wed Jan 09, 2002 at 02:06:06 PM PST

wooo hoo! It finally works.

It seems I was messing with the wrong perl module. Here's what I did:

Edit ~scoop/lib/Scoop/Admin/Users.pm line 238 so that ":26" is concatenated between {SERVER_NAME} and $path, so that it looks like:

my $confirmurl = "http://$S->{SERVER_NAME}".":26"."$path/?op=newuser;tool=confirm;uname=$nick;confirm=$confirm_string ";

There's probably a more elegant way to do this, but for a newbie like me, as long as it works, it's cool.

Anyway, thanks again, and let me know if there's some better way to do this!
Crip.

Provider blocking port 80 -- scoop woes | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)

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