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Anyone else having problems?

Please list any and all bugs, feature requests etc in here and we can pick them up from one place. Only one bug/request per thread please, and make the title relevant so they are easy to pick out.

Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 09:39

Now I got this error message:


General Error
You are not allowed to access this file.

Please notify the board administrator or webmaster: admin@thewoodhaven2.co.uk
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 09:40

What were you doing when you got that, just trying to post a reply?
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby novocaine » 15 Feb 2021, 10:00

check your address as already suggested.

otherwise please hard type in to the search bar HTTPS://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:04

TrimTheKing wrote:What were you doing when you got that, just trying to post a reply?


Trying to stick an image into a post, using the forum's image hosting.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:06

novocaine wrote:check your address as already suggested.

otherwise please hard type in to the search bar HTTPS://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk


I did, and got this message:



Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at https.thewoodhaven2.co.uk.

If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:

Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web.
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Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:18

Something to try please Mike, click into the search bar at the bottom and type ‘cmd’ just those three letters.

Once it opens up the DOS window (black window with white text) type the following:

Ping -t http://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk

Then hit enter.

This will start a continuous ping from your machine to the forum server, please leave this running and do not close the window.

Now use the forum as normal, if/when you experience an issue click back into that ping window and see what it says.

If everything is connecting fine between your machine and the forum then the responses will continue as normal, getting a response in ms (milliseconds) from the server.

If anything is getting dropped or lost then you will see dropped packets in the form of a line of text that says ‘request timed out’ or similar.

Please report back whether you see any dropped packets at or around the time of the forum issue. This will tell us, very basically, whether you are having any intermittent packet loss/connectivity issues from your machine to the forum.

Once we know either way then we can work out where to look next.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:21

Mike G wrote:
novocaine wrote:check your address as already suggested.

otherwise please hard type in to the search bar HTTPS://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk


I did, and got this message:



Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at https.thewoodhaven2.co.uk.

If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:

Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web.


Mike did you type it in or click the link for https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk ?

I only ask because that error is returning slightly wrong text.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:21

Mike G wrote:
novocaine wrote:check your address as already suggested.

otherwise please hard type in to the search bar HTTPS://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk


I did, and got this message:



Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at https.thewoodhaven2.co.uk.

If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:

Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web.


Mike did you type it in or click the link for https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk ?

I only ask because that error is returning slightly wrong text.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:38

I typed it, then selected from the drop-down suggestion.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:40

I've corrected, and done it again. No error message this time, and the padlock image in the address bar has changed.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:43

Attaching image as test

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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:44

You might be onto something here, chaps. Accessing via https seems to be working at the moment.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:47

Mike G wrote:You might be onto something here, chaps. Accessing via https seems to be working at the moment.


Give it time Mike, I don’t believe it is the fix, I think you’re just getting lucky at the moment...
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:49

Trying the same post via http:

It fell over at "upload picture", and at "submit", without the picture loaded.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:50

Hmmm.....but the picture loaded, and it took 6 hits of "submit" for it to work.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:51

Ooooooh, hold on! It looks like the SSL cert came in over the weekend but they didn’t tell me! I was expecting a confirmation email but it looks like it’s been applied.

Okay so let’s see how this goes and if it stays stable then it’s some kind of security setting in your machine, but either way if it works then woohoo!
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 10:52

Mike G wrote:Hmmm.....but the picture loaded, and it took 6 hits of "submit" for it to work.


Ignore that.

Delete all memory of the http version and use only the https site from now on and let’s see how we get along.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 10:58

Done.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 12:41

All evidence so far seems to be that things are now working fine.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby AJB Temple » 15 Feb 2021, 12:49

Now that the site has an SSL certificate, it may be worth members generally changing their bookmarks. I've just done that and cleared out old site cookies. Site is now showing as secure.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby 9fingers » 15 Feb 2021, 12:56

@ Mark,
Something else possibly needs changing now as all our outgoing notification email links use the http address.

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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Nelsun » 15 Feb 2021, 13:09

All looking good from here Mark and, on the plus side, the forum software has the smarts to be serving older internally hosted images over https as well. That would've been a major pain in the posterior to sort out manually :eusa-dance:

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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 13:44

9fingers wrote:@ Mark,
Something else possibly needs changing now as all our outgoing notification email links use the http address.

Bob



Thanks Bob, I'll take a look. The old http will still work fine as both exist, but you're right that I should change the emails.
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Feb 2021, 13:45

Mike G wrote:All evidence so far seems to be that things are now working fine.


:eusa-pray: :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Re: Anyone else having problems?

Postby Mike G » 15 Feb 2021, 14:05

Can I thank everyone again for their help, which is very much appreciated. Especially you Mark.
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