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Title: AH Website
Post by: DLXIRON on October 18, 2018, 03:01:18 PM

Dont know where else to post this but I always come to the forums through the website and something seems to wrong with it.  Just a black screen with text.  Thought you should know.

Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Mano on October 18, 2018, 03:25:51 PM
The player Scores and Ranks do not work either. You get an error message.

 :eek:
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: CptTrips on October 18, 2018, 04:25:42 PM
ditto
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: FLS on October 18, 2018, 04:43:14 PM
Just tested links. It all works for me.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Mano on October 18, 2018, 05:41:53 PM
The main web site is working.

The player Scores and Ranks link produces an error message:
ERROR: _TopRank: Host: gs2 Tour:LWTour225 MySQL Err:

 :embarrassed:
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: RELIC on October 18, 2018, 06:28:57 PM
The bookmark I normally use isn't working:
https://www1.hitechcreations.com/frindex.html

404 error
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: guncrasher on October 18, 2018, 07:11:53 PM
works for me update your link.

semp
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Mano on October 18, 2018, 09:00:39 PM
Click on Rank
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: FLS on October 18, 2018, 10:18:32 PM
Didn't check rank. You're right. SQL error.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: ccvi on October 19, 2018, 01:30:11 AM
Looks like it's being reworked/restructured, which is probably a good thing.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Skuzzy on October 19, 2018, 06:32:03 AM
Something has happened to the rank/score.  It was working.  I'll look into it in a bit.

The WEB site has moved to another service/IP address and has become secure.  Google required the change to a secure site.  Time to update bookmarks.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Skuzzy on October 19, 2018, 07:58:23 AM
Scores and ranks should be working again.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: RELIC on October 19, 2018, 12:33:21 PM
Quote from: Skuzzy on October 19, 2018, 06:32:03 AM
Something has happened to the rank/score.  It was working.  I'll look into it in a bit.

The WEB site has moved to another service/IP address and has become secure.  Google required the change to a secure site.  Time to update bookmarks.
:aok
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: 1stpar3 on October 19, 2018, 02:46:45 PM
 :O And here I WAS.....thinking NO ONE worried about SCORES :azn: Or even cared 1 bit...Who would have thunk it :rofl
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: streakeagle on October 20, 2018, 12:40:34 PM
I just discovered I needed to update my very old bookmark the hard way: 404 error. Googled Aces High and got the new link.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: TequilaChaser on October 21, 2018, 11:23:59 AM
It amazes me how all the people who are on these boards and still playing the game hardly ever check out the Announcements forum at the very top
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: ccvi on October 21, 2018, 06:13:22 PM
Quote from: TequilaChaser on October 21, 2018, 11:23:59 AM
It amazes me how all the people who are on these boards and still playing the game hardly ever check out the Announcements forum at the very top

The announcement there was related to the update of the bbs.hitechcreations.com, which has been a while ago already.

There's still something weird. https://www1.hitechcreations.com/ redirects with downgrade to http://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php, which then upgrades again to https://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Skuzzy on October 22, 2018, 06:26:56 AM
Quote from: ccvi on October 21, 2018, 06:13:22 PM
The announcement there was related to the update of the bbs.hitechcreations.com, which has been a while ago already.

There's still something weird. https://www1.hitechcreations.com/ redirects with downgrade to http://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php, which then upgrades again to https://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php.

It is not weird.  It is the time it takes for DNS changes to propagate, compounded by the aggressive caching some browsers do.  DNS changes can take up to a week to propagate.  More if your browser is really hanging on to that cached version.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: TequilaChaser on October 22, 2018, 07:04:06 AM
Quote from: ccvi on October 21, 2018, 06:13:22 PM
The announcement there was related to the update of the bbs.hitechcreations.com, which has been a while ago already.

The announcement actually related to all of HTC's servers: Main Website, BBS, Trainers website, AHWiki, etc...

Quote
Topic: Server Updates (http servers)

Today (September 11) we will be updating the WEB servers in order to migrate them to secure connections (https).  As such, there will be periods where the bulletin board and main WEB page will be up and down.



Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: 2bighorn on October 22, 2018, 11:56:42 AM
Quote from: Skuzzy on October 22, 2018, 06:26:56 AM
It is not weird.  It is the time it takes for DNS changes to propagate, compounded by the aggressive caching some browsers do.  DNS changes can take up to a week to propagate.  More if your browser is really hanging on to that cached version.

Here's one not DNS related:

404
https://www1.hitechcreations.com/styles/cp.css

https://www1.hitechcreations.com/styles/cp.css
Host: www1.hitechcreations.com
Accept: text/css,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://www1.hitechcreations.com/
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1

GET: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:46:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.33 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2p
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Content-Length: 1441
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[/size][/font]
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: ccvi on October 22, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
Quote from: Skuzzy on October 22, 2018, 06:26:56 AM
It is not weird.  It is the time it takes for DNS changes to propagate, compounded by the aggressive caching some browsers do.  DNS changes can take up to a week to propagate.  More if your browser is really hanging on to that cached version.

https://www1.hitechcreations.com/ returns 200 and delivers a basically empty page with <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php">. Its freshly delivered, not cached. Might be from the wrong server if www1.hitechcreations.com isn't 199.101.50.180 of course.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Skuzzy on October 23, 2018, 06:33:36 AM
Quote from: 2bighorn on October 22, 2018, 11:56:42 AM
Here's one not DNS related:

404
https://www1.hitechcreations.com/styles/cp.css

https://www1.hitechcreations.com/styles/cp.css
Host: www1.hitechcreations.com
Accept: text/css,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://www1.hitechcreations.com/
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1

GET: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:46:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.33 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2p
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Content-Length: 1441
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[/size][/font]

I need the full URL that came from.

Quote from: ccvi on October 22, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
https://www1.hitechcreations.com/ returns 200 and delivers a basically empty page with <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.hitechcreations.com/index.php">. Its freshly delivered, not cached. Might be from the wrong server if www1.hitechcreations.com isn't 199.101.50.180 of course.

The only error I see here is a redirect to a non-secure URL.  I'll check that.
Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: 2bighorn on October 27, 2018, 09:26:51 PM
Quote from: Skuzzy on October 23, 2018, 06:33:36 AM
I need the full URL that came from.

What's with sysadmins these days?

Takes under a minute for you to grep all instances vs me going back through all pages and tons of http headers.

example:
grep --include="*.php" -nRHI "styles/cp.css" /home/user/public_html (you may include css and js files as well)

real world example on my server, looking for header.inc.php in all php files within public_html directory:
# grep --include="*.php" -nRHI "header.inc.php" /home/bighorn/public_html

/home/bighorn/public_html/profile.php:35:include(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/account.php:120:include(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/kb/faq.php:33:require_once(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/kb/index.php:19:require(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/index.php:59:require(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/view.php:47:require CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php';
/home/bighorn/public_html/pwreset.php:82:require CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php';
/home/bighorn/public_html/tickets.php:125:include(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/open.php:69:require(CLIENTINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/emailtest.php:54:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/departments.php:137:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/system.php:22:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/staff.php:122:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/pages.php:135:require_once(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/banlist.php:142:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/filters.php:123:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/emails.php:95:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/profile.php:48:require_once(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/upgrade.php:86:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/kb.php:30:require_once(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/dashboard.php:20:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/categories.php:126:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/orgs.php:110:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/directory.php:21:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/settings.php:56:require_once(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/groups.php:119:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/faq.php:117:require_once(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/slas.php:124:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');
/home/bighorn/public_html/scp/forms.php:153:require(STAFFINC_DIR.'header.inc.php');

From login to nicely colored results in under 20 seconds. And I'm lousy typist.

 :mad:



Title: Re: AH Website
Post by: Skuzzy on October 29, 2018, 07:02:32 AM
I agree.  With a flat filesystem it is simple.  Not that simple with Joomla where there are no files to search.

I found where it was.  If someone happen to have the URL already it just helps to save time.