Troubleshooting - Possible Attacks, YouTube Embeds

Continuing me efforts to help resolve most of the common issues asked in the forums, I will continue with Possible Attacks and issues with embedding YouTube videos.

Problem: I am getting an error stating "Possible security attack!!! All data has been collected and sent to the site owner for analysis."

Solution(s):

PHPIDS is a security features that is intended to protect your site for possible attacks regarding hyperlinks, javascripts, sql injections, etc. Sometimes, this security feature can block behavior that is not considered dangerous at all, such as smileys, adding links into blogs, forums, etc.

You can resolve this 2 ways as of right now:

- In Admin Panel, you can navigate to Settings>Advanced Settings>Other and set BOTH impact levels (to send email, to block user) HIGHER than the total impact indicated in the email you received regarding it. You should see the total impact at the very top of the email.

- You can also set BOTH impact levels with a -1 to disable this security feature all together (use this at your own risk)

Problem: When I try to embed a YouTube video, nothing happens OR the continue button is greyed out.

When embedding Youtube videos, all the information (title, descriptions, etc.) is pulled automatically from the YouTube site.

- Its possible that the description has exceeded the character limit for the description field OR title field. Try removing some of the text from these fields or possibly try typing in your own.

- If the continue button is greyed out after pasting the YouTube code, just hit the ENTER key or click somewhere on the screen. Since you have not technically typed anything in the field, the continue button will NOT automatically become active.

- Make sure that the video you are trying to embed is not protected by "containing suggestive material" which causes you to physically login to YouTube to view.

- Make sure that the video is not set to "Embedding disabled by request". You can see this by visiting the YouTube site and checking the Embed field on the videos page.

- Make sure the video link you are trying to embed is the actual link and not a "related" video link. The format should resemble something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AANZvYn5uk

Other members who have resolved these issues with other types of valid resolutions, please feel free to add your resolutions to the comments.

** Always remember to clear your /cache (except for .htaccess) and /cache_public folders when making changes.

Chris

 I find when embedding you tube link into the field...the continue button is greyed...but if I click on the input field again the continue button is "clickable" and info is pulled...

is that what your talking about?

Yes, that is what Im saying :)

*NOTE* this is not an actual embed, the term is exceedingly misleading. it has been discovered by Dolphin_Jay, that these videos are fed through rss, and thus the reason you provide the url rather than the 'embed' code.

again, this is not an embed, terminology was misused, and should be corrected.

Regards,

DosDawg

Thanks DD for your comments and explanation on the embedding process.

The reason I used the term "embed" is, to the installer and members, that is the term they see within the application itself. When they post their problems, they refer to it as "embedding". Understanding that you make a valid point, I just prefer to keep it simple without too detailed of a description.

Again, Thanks for the input.

Chris

Ok, so that I can shed a little of what I went through, followed every thing here, because it was what I experienced, and what I found was indeed a tough thing to except!

So you were right DD, this I guess is not an embed for say, and when you go in and copy the embed code well this is where the problem occurs!!

I tried clicking out side the box, and hitting enter and such, but as you pointed out Zarcon it should look like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AANZvYn5uk

Well that is the Url of the you tube!!!

Nothing to do with the embed of the you tube! But what I dont understand is that I have used the embed before and it worked but not this time.

I had to put in the url AND click out side the box for the continue box to be active.

Now that I figuresd out after a day of pulling my hair out for something so small, how is my members going to figure this out?(some cant even mix a screw driver, and thats pretty simple) So I guess I'll have to add a how to in the forums huh?

Thanks for the right direction guys!!!

Derrick