Something that doesn’t have to do with love drama (or even VRChat)? Holy fuck, is it 2020 already and I made a new year’s resolution not to talk so much about love drama!?
Maybe, maybe not. But enough games, I have (or had) a situation on my hands.
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Website security issues (with hosting images)
The last time I discussed something pertaining to this website, was last month of funding it through 2020. And this is another topic I wish I didn’t have to discuss… but I have to.
There is sadly a security issue I overlooked (that Jusper informed me about) when I changed ShareX to use my website to upload pictures. Never did I think people would be trying to access the main directory to use the pictures for malicious purposes, and it sickens me so.. how I never thought about that.
Though I have been pretty mindful of what I upload (making sure to hide personal info of
myself)… a few of them have my email address (which I never thought was super important to hide), while others are conversations of Discord.
This afternoon, I asked Arvixe to please help lock down the directory (but still allow anyone to view the pictures)… sadly they cannot do that. All they can do is lock access to everyone (even myself) in that folder (via .htaccess). I told Jusper (while he was at work) and said he would help me
and all I could do was wait for Jusper to hopefully fix the issue. The only other way is to allow my IP to join it, but it would still block access to everyone else (which obviously defeats the purpose).
Ugh… it’s times like this where I… almost wish Angry was still around. He could fix this issue in a heartbeat.
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Several hours later (playing VRCDOOM with Kovo and four others, all arguing over which gun they should be using), Jusper tells me “I can help you now” and I have to quickly get off VR to do this.
He gives me a few things of code of searching around. First one doesn’t work (makes the problem actually worse). The second (a much smaller line of code) does. Now access to the /images/ folder is giving a 403 (Forbidden) error, yet images I link work fine (exactly what I wanted).
We talked for awhile after that, discussing random things (that I forgot). Though one was a blog post I was going to talk about (but felt it wasn’t that big of a deal). Two days
ago, Jusper said that something’s been going on with Kovo. When I tried to investigate, he told me that he forgot to tell Jusper that he gives him permission to “rip his world”. Talked to Kovo about it that evening. Said his “mind went dark”. He also said he hasn’t been able to sleep right.. which is why he told me a week ago about him “not having long to live”.
…I really hope it’s nothing serious. Hate to lose the beloved nonsense man/great friend.