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Weirder still, when I scroll down on the 404 page, the layout of the 404 page is repeated beneath it. Does that make it an 808?

 

 
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Do you happen to have the original URL that lead to the 404 page, Don? That might help us to sort things out.

 

 
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This is very very very odd. Actually, we can’t replicate any of your issues.

What I do see is that not many people have posted during the last days, thus many more of you must have experienced trouble on the forum.

Also, we didn’t make any significant changes over the past days (we did upgrade the latest version of our CMS, but that’s a few weeks ago).

help needed
Who has a script that would allow us to replicate the issue? (something like: go to firefox, clear cookies, login as x, than follow this link ... ).

That would be very very helpful.

Many many thanks!!!

In the meantime, we’ll keep on researching server logs etc.

 

 
  [ # 19 ]

ERWIN LOGGED IN AS WILL HERE

As an admin, I have the privilege to ‘login as member’. I’ve just logged as Will, and posted here:
https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/1796/

As you can see, succeeded. So I still can’t replicate :-(. Help help help! :-s

 

 
  [ # 20 ]

Same here. I posted in that thread as Don Patrick (I hope you don’t mind, Don), and was able to see it, and post with no issues. Anyone else having issues with either this thread, or any other is encouraged to let us know here.

 

 
  [ # 21 ]

Don,

Just a quick line to say thank you!

I have for this first time in some months been able to access “New here and general stuff ...”. Not a 404 error to be seen.

I am hoping this means that the issue has now been resolved.

The outstanding issues of no daily emails of new posts to Chatbots.org and 0 points showing on the profile page,
as previously reported, remain unresolved.

Jim.

 

 
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It seems the problem is very inconsistent. In all honesty I have been having it on and off less frequently for the past month or so, but figured it was because of the big upgrade you had mentioned. I believe I experienced similar when Eugene Goostman hit the news and overloaded the forum with visits. The problem did not become so extreme again until, come to think of it, in the week the results of the Loebner Prize were anticipated. Might this have the same cause? Different to then, the forum is not slow.

For some miraculous reason today I can, sometimes, access the forum and main page without a hitch. I don’t seem to have the problem on my Windows Vista Internet Explorer computer that I rarely use, at least not in recent memory. I do still have it, on and off, on my Windows 8 Firefox computer.

Let us ignore the doubling of the 404 and my 404’ed post, as they both only occurred once, and focus on the greater symptoms.
There isn’t a specific URL from which I am visiting the site. I typically just open Firefox, with Deviantart.com as start page, and type the address “chatbots.org” or “chatbots.org/ai_zone” directly into the address bar. Or when I Google “chatbots forum” and click on the link listed there, I also get the 404. If I instead access e.g. “chatbots.org/viewforum/9” by typing it in my address bar, there is no problem. However, from any page on the forum, if I clicked either the “Forums” tab, the “Directory” tab or the “Forum home” link at the top of a thread, I got a 404. Even the manual entry of “chatbots.org/viewforum/9” then provides a 404 from then on, until I close the browser.
I manually deleted my cookies, but this has no effect.

Hang on, when I type “https://www.chatbots.org” as the url, it accesses well. When I type it as “http://” without “-s” or as “www.etc”, I get the 404. Google also, links to “www.chatbots.org”, not “httpS://www.chatbots.org”. My Firefox browser may be using history: Have you changed from http to https recently?

 

 
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SO this may well be an SSL problem. That may narrow this down a lot. I’ll look into it, and inform the team of a possible new avenue of investigation. smile

 

 
  [ # 24 ]

All seems to be working ok so far for me today.

 

 
  [ # 25 ]
Don Patrick - Sep 29, 2014:

Hang on, when I type “https://www.chatbots.org” as the url, it accesses well. When I type it as “http://” without “-s” or as “www.etc”, I get the 404. Google also, links to “www.chatbots.org”, not “httpS://www.chatbots.org”. My Firefox browser may be using history: Have you changed from http to https recently?

I’m sorry to hear about the problems you’ve been having and I appreciate your help.

Yes, the https is new since yesterday. The whole site runs on https://www.chatbots.org now and every page without http redirects to https.

It is very strange that you would get a 404 when you type chatbots.org or click on a link in Google. I cannot replicate it. Do you remember when this started?

 

 

 
  [ # 26 ]
James Curran - Sep 29, 2014:

The outstanding issues of no daily emails of new posts to Chatbots.org and 0 points showing on the profile page, as previously reported, emain unresolved.

I see on your profile page that you have 35 forum posts and 73 points:
https://www.chatbots.org/expert/james_curran/65467/

Do you see that too? This seems correct; I can find 35 posts from you in the database, and no comments or entries that are associated with your account.

Regarding the daily forum digests, you should have received one yesterday. Did you get it? The one before that was on 23 September. I can see in the log that you received these two. If not then maybe they ended up in your spam folder. There was no digest on 24, 25, 26 and 27 september and I don’t know why. There was some forum activity on those days, so the digests should have gone out on those days.

 

 

 
  [ # 27 ]

It started about a month ago, a week or two before this topic started, varying in occurrance. Last week it was constant.
The switch to https however now seems to have fixed whatever the problem was. Thank you for your efforts.

 

 
  [ # 28 ]

I have an error 404 on this page :

https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/1866/

When I click on the name “Todd Kuebler” (first post) I have an error 404 on this link:

https://www.chatbots.org/expert//65457

The good link should be:

https://www.chatbots.org/expert/todd_kuebler/65457

 

 
  [ # 29 ]
Denis Robert - Nov 17, 2014:

I have an error 404 on this page :

https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/1866/

When I click on the name “Todd Kuebler” (first post) I have an error 404 on this link:

https://www.chatbots.org/expert//65457

Thank you for reporting this. The error is now fixed and the link goes to https://www.chatbots.org/expert/todd_kuebler/65457

 

 
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Same bug with James_Adams on this page:

https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/2013/

https://www.chatbots.org/expert//65519

https://www.chatbots.org/expert/james_adams/65519/

It seems to be when the name contains a “_”, no ?

 

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