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Very unsolvable mission according to the hackthissite forums. And many people tried to solve it by searching hints and similar. Maybe even mission introduction in the beginning was a bit fuzzy.

Sam decided to make a music site. Unfortunately he does not understand Apache. This mission is a bit harder than the other basics.

Now when you open the first page you will receive message similar to this one:

I love my music! “Lovesick ” is the best!

Sooner or later you will figure out that all these songs are written by Elton John.

Next step for me was to try index.php since it basically is default web page, and in case it is not up on default settings we should see content of the web folder directory. If you enter following URL you will have ability to enter answer but what answer is we will find later on.

http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/index.php

Now we have to find correct directory listings. And after drill down trough forums I found hint that one should do his abc’s. So after several attempts I managed to find out the following directory:

http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/e/l/t/o/n/

Another thing since there was nothing listed was to check .htaccess file.

http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/e/l/t/o/n/.htaccess

IndexIgnore DaAnswer.* .htaccess

order allow,deny
allow from all

From this file we are able to figure out that DaAnswer directory is hidden from directory structure. So let’s traverse to that directory. On the following URL:

http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/basic/11/e/l/t/o/n/DaAnswer

You will find something similar to the following sentence:

The answer is somewhere close! Just look a little harder.

Notice that in this case answer is: somewhere close they were playing some trick on us.

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