System Verification

Perform Validation

Strange problems after an installation or upgrade are often caused by one or more files failing to upload correctly. Use the checksum file to verify that no files are missing or were corrupted in the upload.

Download the appropriate checksum file from the Forge, e.g. cmsmadesimple-<version>-base-checksum.dat or cmsmadesimple-<version>-full-checksum.dat. If you have renamed your admin directory then open the .dat file in a text editor and search and replace "/admin/" with "/<my-admin-directory>/" (approx. 290+ instances).

Now select the 'System Verification' link on the 'Site Admin' menu, locate your downloaded checksum.dat file and press submit. It may take a few seconds to return the results. If you have deleted the /install/ directory then those files will be reported as missing. You may also get told that various index.html files in the /tmp directory are missing or invalid/corrupt. Likewise with the SITEDOWN file.

Note: The checksum only verifies the core and the core modules. Any additional modules you've added are not verified. This is also a useful check if you suspect your site has been hacked to help identify possible hacked files.

Note: See the two pictures below. The first pictures shows a failure, but explainable according to the above lines. If you get other failures it is up to you to interpret what to do. The second picture shows the result when everything is ok.

Download Checksum File

With this procedure you can create a checksum-file of the core and the core modules and save that checksum-file to your PC. Later, you can do the Perform Validation procedure (see above) to check if your system is still the system you expect it to be.

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