First impressions

  • Resolved jsavage

    (@jsavage)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi, I have only recently installed this plugin following a hack; however, I am having difficulty gaining confidence in what it does.

    This morning (05-09-2023 10:00) there was one file change detected: /home/<account>/public_html/.htaccess date 04-09-2023 05:21:53

    My first observation is that there is no facility to view the contents or see what the change was. So I ssh’d into the hosting service and went to the folder indicated and examined the file with stat. However none of the timestamps match up.

    ~/public_html]$ stat .htaccess
    File: ‘.htaccess’
    Size: 2530 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
    Device: 902h/2306d Inode: 38850458 Links: 1
    Access: (0644/-rw-r–r–)
    Access: 2023-08-27 05:46:02.342943099 +0100
    Modify: 2023-09-03 23:22:35.892159694 +0100
    Change: 2023-09-03 23:22:35.892159694 +0100
    Birth: –

    Is this proof of a bug? Not yet. Currently this is a sample of one so I will persevere. However, it would be good to know which time stamp this plugin uses when reporting changes.

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  • Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    Hello @jsavage

    Thank you very much for using our plugin. Below please find the answers to your questions;

    1. Indeed, you cannot see the file changes. This is something we would like to introduce in the future.
    2. The plugin does not use any of those timestamps for comparison. It compares files by creating a hash of each file the first time it scans the website. If the file hash changes in subsequent scans it means that the file has changed.

    We would recommend taking a backup of the website the first time you run a scan, so whenever there are file changes you can compare the changes with the backup.

    I hope the above answers your questions. Please let us know if you need any further information or assistance.

    Have a great weekend.

    Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    Hello jsavage,

    Today we have released update 2.0 of this plugin. As such it is not an update on the previous version, but this plugin has been completely redesigned and rewritten.

    I would highly recommend you to check the new plugin. The option to see what in the file has changed is still not yet available, but with the new design of the plugin it will certainly be possible to have such a feature, so it will be added later on.

    If you try the plugin, I’d appreciate any feedback you can give us.

    Thank you and have a great day.

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