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WEBSITE STATUS

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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Oakstone   » Tue Nov 12, 2019 3:23 pm

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Tried to enter forums this morning - received a warning that it may be subject to hacking as it is non-secure. Chose to continue, but the hosting organization stated that the IP address for the forums had changed or they had been moved to another server. Went back and did a search and was finally able to reach this site. The last time I was on was Friday, Nov 8 and no problems then. I notice very few posts on any forum since November 9.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Robert_A_Woodward   » Wed Nov 13, 2019 2:01 am

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Oakstone wrote:Tried to enter forums this morning - received a warning that it may be subject to hacking as it is non-secure. Chose to continue, but the hosting organization stated that the IP address for the forums had changed or they had been moved to another server. Went back and did a search and was finally able to reach this site. The last time I was on was Friday, Nov 8 and no problems then. I notice very few posts on any forum since November 9.


OTOH, I have visited this site regularly for weeks without a problem.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Joat42   » Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:16 am

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Oakstone wrote:Tried to enter forums this morning - received a warning that it may be subject to hacking as it is non-secure. Chose to continue, but the hosting organization stated that the IP address for the forums had changed or they had been moved to another server. Went back and did a search and was finally able to reach this site. The last time I was on was Friday, Nov 8 and no problems then. I notice very few posts on any forum since November 9.

The problem is that when you try to connect with https to the forums, the server uses the service-provider's certificate which points to vps5512.inmotionhosting.com and not forums.davidweber.net. All browsers will then throw up a warning due to the mismatch of hostnames.

The administrator of this site needs to set up a certificate for *.davidweber.net which will make the warning go away.

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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by GregD   » Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:42 pm

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GerryBM wrote:
Duckk wrote:As far as I can tell, it's completely spontaneous. There is indications of some malformed headers from a weird forum search, but it shouldn't have killed the whole site.


Site should be back up for everyone now. I am not sure what the webhost did but something borked the .htaccess files COMPLETELY for both the main site and the forums. :evil: I was finally able to recreate them and I am making backups now just in case. Please let me know if you have any other weirdness or if something is not working right! :ugeek:

Thanks!

Gerry "LongwoodGeek" Martin
David Weber's Tech Guy
Owner, NecroTechs, LLC - "We Resurrect Dead Technology"
gerry@necrotechs.com



Thank you for the fix.

Now, does anyone know where the Mad Wizard Weber is?
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Duckk   » Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:33 am

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Last I saw a day or 2 ago, he was in Prague.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by GregD   » Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:38 am

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Duckk wrote:Last I saw a day or 2 ago, he was in Prague.


So, when do we get some new snippets?
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Jeslis   » Sat Jan 25, 2020 4:18 am

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Just checking in _ Is this website still the go-to for anything Weber, or has he moved his postings elsewhere?

According to search; his last post was Oct 19th.

Please advise.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by Duckk   » Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:10 pm

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David goes radio silent for long stretches of time. We've had periods where we don't see him for over a year.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by ThinksMarkedly   » Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:49 am

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We just hope he's busy writing at that time.
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Re: WEBSITE STATUS
Post by kzt   » Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:41 pm

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ThinksMarkedly wrote:We just hope he's busy writing at that time.

He is. But other exciting events might be going on too, fun or not fun.
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