Joy-Bay.com seems to have stolen my catagories!!

[christoria]

Hello,

 

I'm located at www.huggablefleece.com, and I'm going about final setups when I look at my sites front page and see all the catagories are joy-bay catagories. How on earth could this have happened??

 

Please help!

 

Thank you,

 

christoria

 

Also, all of my catagories are correct in the admin. They are untouched.

 

Fixed it! I reset the catagories. Phew...

These forums are great. Look how fast that problem was solved.

 

By the way, how does anyone think that may have happened?

 

Thanks again,

 

christoria

 

Well, it happened again - within two minutes. I reset it again, but who knows how long until it happens again. Does someone know how to stop this? It is only affecting my Catagories on the left side. My admin is untouched for now, as is everything else.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

christoria

[Guest]

Set "use cache" to false in admin, this happens when on a shared server

[AlanR]

Same server/same IP

 

www.huggablefleece.com (38.113.1.102)

joy-bay.com (38.113.1.102)

 

Go into admin -> Configuration -> Use Cache and set it to false

 

In http://www.huggablefleece.com/includes/configure.php set the last line like so:

 

// define our database connection

define('DB_SERVER', ''); // eg, localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', '');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', '');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'osCommerce');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

[rabbitseffort]

Joy-bay doesn't even know how to or doesn't care to resize their images, so it seems to me dial up customers will not be shopping there, seems people forget the many thousands of people that are still on dial up when they create a site. 3 megs on a thumbnail is ridiculous!

 

good luck with your site and if they are image stealers, good luck getting them to stop

[AlanR]

Joy-bay doesn't even know how to or doesn't care to resize their images, so it seems to me dial up customers will not be shopping there, seems people forget the many thousands of people that are still on dial up when they create a site. 3 megs on a thumbnail is ridiculous!

 

I noticed that too but they're not the ones asking questions. I've got 3 Mbps dsl and when I see the images build like that I don't even have to check the sizes to know what's going on.

[christoria]

Thank you so much! That worked - the "use cache" thing. I don't know how joy-bay works. I just noticed their catagories in my spot.

 

AlanR, how did you discover the servers were the same? That is good information.

 

Thanks again,

 

christoria

[AlanR]

AlanR, how did you discover the servers were the same? That is good information.

traceroute

 

You could use cache if you created a folder within your own web space and changed the cache directory in your admin section (under cache). As default it uses space common to other sites above your webspace which is how the data co-mingles with the other site.

 

You don't have that many items so I doubt that cache would make much difference to you.

[christoria]

Of course... The things I forget because I don't use them so much.

 

Thank you for that explanation. I'll likely not be using cache.

 

Thanks again,

 

christoria