A nice little experience with free hosting

darkcrunk · #1 (**permalink**) 09-22-2006, 08:13 PM

Now, we all know that free hosts put on advertisement forcefully.

I am using a free host from a service ( i would like to keep it discreet ). they put a pretty big banner on my site.

while using HTML pages, i managed to remove the banner easily using <iframes> ..

however.. while using php files, i had some problems.

this morning, i installed wordpress there.

after wordpress has been installed, the installer sends u the pass using the STMP server of your host.

however, in this free hosting, STMP server was disabled.. thus, i could not get the pass and was stuck !

then, with no where to go .. i turned on the phpmyadmin and searched for the field that stored the password for my username

i got the password storage field ..

under the wp_users table ..

however, the password was not stored in plaintxt

so i asked hasin bhai, if there was a built in functionality to convert plaintxt to md5 hashes .. he said he was busy but added later that i should try using the md5() function.

i was lazy .. to make a new file n experiment ( but thats how u learn things ;P ) ..

anyway, what i did was encrypted a pass in md5 and replaced the value in the phpmyadmin table..

and after saving it and using that password in plaintxt worked

. . it was really amazing , first thing in the morning . .

sigh .. ( these are amazing things for comp nerds .. dunno about u sad folks :P )

word of the day "presto!"

so, the password problem was solved.

now the problem is with the banner they put on my site ( chk it out ehabmehedi.net )

i am still trying to solve it . .if there is anyone here who can find a way, please lemme know : )

here is the method i am trying to use right now ..

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}|Serial_Killer|{ · #2 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 02:54 AM

lol....thats really cool.

you encrypted a password in MD5 , replace it and it works fine ..... sounds strange but its working !!

I am quite astonished !

darkcrunk · #3 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 12:54 PM

lemme explain a lil more ..

the password is stored in the server with the md5 encryption.

rather than decrypting it and using that password,

i just encrypted a new password and replaced the old md5 with the new one

and thats guaranteed to work : )

}|Serial_Killer|{ · #4 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 12:57 PM

yes... i understood .... but i m confused because thre are several kinda encryptin methid in md5 tech....how could you know, which was used??

darkcrunk · #5 (**permalink**) 09-23-2006, 01:11 PM

hmm.. as far as i know, md5 represents only 1 encryption method.

but there are other encryption methods as well

SHA and DES

along with MD5 , these 3 are most commonly used.

With my past knowledge, I knew that MySQL databases supports the MD5 function.. so i tried it first and it worked.

here a link to the encryptor used.

http://www.spywire.net/password-encryption.php