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Illegal value received for parameter «page»!

1 Mar 23, 2016 21:02    

I am a total newbie and I had a friend who helped me set up my blog. Unfortunately I can no longer ask my friend for help.

Here is my situation/problem:

I am running b2evolution version 4.1.2 released on 02/11/11

My website is www.levenslangleren.be

When I try to go to my home page, I receive the following error message:

Bad Request!
The parameters of your request are invalid.
If you have obtained this error by clicking on a link INSIDE of this site, please report the bad link to the administrator.
Illegal value received for parameter «page»!

However, accessing the pages inside my site, works fine: Here is an example: http://levenslangleren.be/hobby.php/challenging-songs-in-rocksmith-2014

What is bugging me, is that this problem occurred around March 1st, and that I have not changed anything since the beginning of January (no new articles, no changes to the site structure....)

So I have 2 questions:

1) does anybody know how I can solve my problem? I contact my hosting company but they say the problem is related to my site, not to their hosting

2) is there a logical explanation why one day my website worked, and the next day it doesn't.

Thank you in advance for your help, preferably not too technical :( I have access to the backend, so if it is just changing a setting, I'll probably manage

F.

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2 Mar 28, 2016 06:26

Hi @thorgal67,

I'll go directly to your questions:

  1. Web hosting companies usually blame the software before anything else. What company is this?

  2. I can think about only two cases where a site suddenly stops working:

    1. A server update. Maybe a PHP version change or anything else.
    2. The site got hacked.

Options:

  1. Can you try to upgrade to the latest version? The instructions are pretty straight forward, but if you need any help, please tell us.
  2. Can you enable the debug mode (using the password method), and share the password in order to let us see the output?

Regards!

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3 Apr 03, 2016 00:28

Looks very much like a hack. It's really hard to create an error like this on the home page without changing the PHP files... (which a hacker may have done).

I would also recommend to upgrade to b2evo 6.6 which will replace all PHP files with clean ones. (This should restore the site but will not necessarily exclude the hacker from doing it again, so it would help if the hosting company would look into this)

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4 Apr 03, 2016 23:49

thank you for the information and suggestions.

I will take a backup and upgrade, and contact my hosting company.

Will keep you informed of the progress

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