Too many periods in email address

[Snowhog]

Is the dir command aliased to "ls -l .*/"?

Can you just run the "ls -l" command directly?

I had it aliased as: alias='ls -ld */ .*/'
I've updated it to: alias='ls -ld */'

Here is the output of ls -l

total 7274348
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       775579977 Sep 22 23:25 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm      2924759775 Sep 21 00:00 access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       137320885 Jul 20 00:00 access.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       121287922 Jul 13 00:00 access.log.11.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       112367945 Jul  6 00:00 access.log.12.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       136318951 Jun 29 00:00 access.log.13.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       124896441 Jun 22 00:00 access.log.14.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       119901710 Jun 15 00:00 access.log.15.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       135720016 Jun  8 00:00 access.log.16.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       124812185 Jun  1 00:00 access.log.17.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       117312519 May 25 00:00 access.log.18.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       120234109 May 18 00:00 access.log.19.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       137225624 May 11 00:00 access.log.20.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       187668917 May  4 00:00 access.log.21.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       168535492 Apr 27 00:00 access.log.22.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       171382311 Apr 20 00:01 access.log.23.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       291161038 Apr 13 00:00 access.log.24.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       169500000 Apr  6 00:00 access.log.25.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       106687990 Mar 30 00:00 access.log.26.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       160183722 Sep 14 00:01 access.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       154499806 Sep  7 00:01 access.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       168841784 Aug 31 00:01 access.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       172691401 Aug 24 00:00 access.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       120702558 Aug 17 00:00 access.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       120050898 Aug 10 00:00 access.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       117243885 Aug  3 00:00 access.log.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm       110957449 Jul 27 00:00 access.log.9.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data       4096 Sep 22 19:46 blockedregistrations
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         4650641 Sep 22 23:25 error.log
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm        23636357 Sep 21 00:00 error.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1260425 Jul 20 00:00 error.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1002212 Jul 13 00:00 error.log.11.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          957906 Jul  6 00:00 error.log.12.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1005911 Jun 29 00:00 error.log.13.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          856285 Jun 22 00:00 error.log.14.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          979274 Jun 15 00:00 error.log.15.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          846193 Jun  8 00:00 error.log.16.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1073511 Jun  1 00:00 error.log.17.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1157155 May 25 00:00 error.log.18.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1886439 May 18 00:00 error.log.19.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2004873 May 11 00:00 error.log.20.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2855799 May  4 00:00 error.log.21.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2953336 Apr 27 00:00 error.log.22.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2696044 Apr 20 00:01 error.log.23.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2748222 Apr 13 00:00 error.log.24.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1271418 Apr  6 00:00 error.log.25.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1003364 Mar 30 00:00 error.log.26.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2737551 Sep 14 00:00 error.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1881256 Sep  7 00:00 error.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         2056284 Aug 31 00:00 error.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1526633 Aug 24 00:00 error.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1028811 Aug 17 00:00 error.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1698576 Aug 10 00:00 error.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1550016 Aug  3 00:00 error.log.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1118368 Jul 27 00:00 error.log.9.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         9688567 Sep 22 23:25 other_vhosts_access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm        35596107 Sep 21 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1037478 Jul 20 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1233296 Jul 13 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.11.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          874169 Jul  6 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.12.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          930302 Jun 29 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.13.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          918239 Jun 22 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.14.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          934377 Jun 15 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.15.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          950777 Jun  8 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.16.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1014563 May 31 23:59 other_vhosts_access.log.17.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          885602 May 25 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.18.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1031986 May 18 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.19.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1056443 May 11 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.20.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1087835 May  4 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.21.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1080067 Apr 27 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.22.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          931928 Apr 20 00:01 other_vhosts_access.log.23.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1279018 Apr 13 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.24.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          924677 Apr  6 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.25.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm          965374 Mar 30 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.26.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1512113 Sep 14 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1095663 Sep  7 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1433013 Aug 31 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1701794 Aug 24 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1041420 Aug 17 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1006500 Aug 10 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1139535 Aug  3 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root     adm         1005027 Jul 27 00:00 other_vhosts_access.log.9.gz

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[glennrocksvb]

Have you confirmed www-data is the Apache user that PHP runs as?

[Snowhog]

Have you confirmed www-data is the Apache user that PHP runs as?

As per your instructions in post #9, yes. I ran the command:

root@kfn1:~# ps aux | grep apache
root      820011  0.0  0.4 242220 37400 ?        Ss   Sep22   0:10 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  820013  0.0  0.0  61596  7124 ?        S    Sep22   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  830925  1.2  0.7 278960 64152 ?        S    00:00   0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  830937  0.1  0.6 327276 54764 ?        S    00:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  830943  0.0  0.6 249952 49092 ?        S    00:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  830969  4.3  0.7 277236 62312 ?        S    00:00   0:13 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831059  1.7  0.8 353324 67736 ?        S    00:02   0:03 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831066  2.0  0.7 279088 63520 ?        S    00:02   0:03 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831102  0.0  0.2 242972 19704 ?        S    00:02   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831106  2.0  0.8 353240 65156 ?        S    00:03   0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831111  2.0  0.8 353896 66492 ?        S    00:03   0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831122  1.4  0.7 279364 63900 ?        S    00:03   0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831126  8.9  0.7 281136 64692 ?        S    00:04   0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831127  2.0  0.7 273136 57756 ?        S    00:04   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831128  1.0  0.5 247476 48216 ?        S    00:04   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831129  2.0  0.7 278888 63256 ?        S    00:04   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831130  2.5  0.8 283220 67660 ?        S    00:04   0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  831147  2.1  0.5 245720 45308 ?        S    00:05   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root      831152  0.0  0.0   9144  2308 pts/1    S+   00:05   0:00 grep --color=auto apache

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[glennrocksvb]

Try running these commands:

php -r 'echo posix_getpwuid(posix_geteuid())["name"] . "\n";'
php -r 'echo var_dump(is_dir("/var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations"));'
​php -r 'echo var_dump(is_writable("/var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations"));'

[Snowhog]

root@kfn1:~# php -r 'echo posix_getpwuid(posix_getuid())["name"] . "\n";'
root

root@kfn1:~# php -r 'echo var_dump(is_dir("/var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations"));'
bool(true)

root@kfn1:~# php -r 'echo var_dump(is_writable("/var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations"));'
bool(true)
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[glennrocksvb]

It looks like the Apache user that PHP runs as is root. Try setting permissions for root in the blockedregistrations directory.

[Snowhog]

Try setting permissions for root in the blockedregistrations directory.

Permissions?

[glennrocksvb]

The same permissions you set to www-data using chown command

[Snowhog]

Okay. Threw me with permissions, which I interpret as the rwx thing. Ownership and permissions are different.

I've chown the directory to root:root

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 22 19:46 blockedregistrations/

I'll try registering a user again and report back.

[Snowhog]

Nope. File isn't created. Entry for the blocked registration shows in error.log.

root@kfn1:/var/log/apache2# grep [email protected] error.log
[Tue Sep 23 01:39:21.792602 2025] [php:notice] [pid 835930:tid 835930] [client 66.41.172.97:62178] [Block Gmail Alias Tricks] Cannot write to log directory: /var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations (directory does not exist or is not writable)\r\n\r\nBlocked user registration with the following info:\r\nDate: 2025-09-23 01:39:21\r\nEmail: [email protected]\r\nUsername: Snowhog9\r\nIP Address: 66.41.172.97\r\nUseragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0\r\n, referer: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/register

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[glennrocksvb]

Try creating a temporary PHP file in the vBulletin root and run it in the browser

<?php
$u = get_current_user();
$d = '/var/log/apache2/blockedregistrations';
$isdir = is_dir($d);
$iswritable = is_writable($d);
var_dump($u, $isdir, $iswritable);
?>​

This should display the Apache user that PHP runs as and if the path is a directory which should return true and if it's writable which should also be true

[Snowhog]

Try creating a temporary PHP file in the vBulletin root

Sorry to be dense, but what is the vbulletin root directory? Placing the file in our public_html directory and pointing to it: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/apache2.php produces this:

Invalid Page URL. If this is an error and the page should exist, please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message.

[glennrocksvb]

If your vBulletin files are placed in public_html without a subdirectory, then that is your vBulletin root directory. Did you name the PHP file as apache2.php? It's throwing a 404 error, so it cannot find the file. It's either the filename is wrong or you placed it in the wrong directory.

[Snowhog]

/srv/www/kubuntuforums.net/public_html

public_html contains:

drwxr-xr-x  7 root             root              4096 2025-09-23 15:55:04 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root             root              4096 2025-08-02 16:53:22 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root                58 2021-10-15 18:17:34 ads.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root               168 2025-09-23 15:37:14 apache2test.php
-rw-r--r--  1 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  3099 2024-03-02 05:06:04 config.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              2808 2024-04-01 22:17:15 config.php.bkp
drwxrwxrwx 17 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  4096 2025-09-23 15:55:04 core
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              1150 2024-01-27 17:05:31 favicon.ico
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              1086 2022-08-26 14:25:05 favicon.ico.old
drwxr-xr-x 16 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  4096 2021-10-14 10:32:53 fonts
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              5492 2025-09-10 04:10:42 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              5331 2025-09-09 15:40:49 .htaccessBACKUP
drwxr-xr-x  7 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  4096 2021-10-14 10:34:05 images
drwxr-xr-x  4 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  4096 2021-10-14 10:34:10 includes
-rw-r--r--  1 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  2551 2024-04-01 22:17:16 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  8 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport 12288 2024-04-01 22:55:38 js
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root              1150 2022-01-12 15:11:23 kfn_favicon.ico
-rw-r--r--  1 root             root             76615 2025-03-18 15:50:08 LetsEncryptASN.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport 29830 2024-04-01 22:17:15 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 vbulletinsupport vbulletinsupport  2502 2024-04-01 22:17:15 web.config

​
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[glennrocksvb]

you named it apache2test.php not apache2.php.