Axis History Forum problems?

Christian Ankerstjerne · Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:12 am

Work is still in progress.

Patience. :)

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:22 am

Anyone know why I am diverted to a site called "www.snakeoil.dom" when I follow a link to the AH forum?

Jerry

Christian Ankerstjerne · Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:33 am

My guess it that it's your browser's default serch engine, which has been hijacked by a smammer site.

Post by **John P. Moore** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:37 am

I received the following response when I tried to log on this morning to AHF.

John

"There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.
The security certificate presented by this website has expired or is not yet valid.
The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.
We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.
Click here to close this webpage.
Continue to this website (not recommended).
More information

If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.
When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try adding the 'www' to the address, https://www.example.com.
If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private information into the website.

For more information, see "Certificate Errors" in Internet Explorer Help."

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:46 am

Yes, I get a similar message about the security certificate being invalid for the site I'm trying to access which it refers to as: "www.snakeoil.dom".

Jerry

Rand · Post by **Rand** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:00 am

Yes, I'm also getting the security warning certificate thingy, but I'm also getting it for another forum, 'British Medal Forum'.

Weird stuff.

Jan-Hendrik · Post by **Jan-Hendrik** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:17 am

Nothing new at the front...

Not Found

The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at forum.axishistory.com Port 80

Jan-Hendrik

Jason Pipes · Post by **Jason Pipes** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:05 pm

Sorry to hear about the trouble on a fellow research forum!

Christian Ankerstjerne · Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:34 pm

The security warning is just because Microsoft is hysterical. As I've mentioned before: Patience.

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:44 pm

Christian Ankerstjerne wrote:The security warning is just because Microsoft is hysterical. As I've mentioned before: Patience.

Apparently Mozilla is hysterical too, as I use Firefox.

FRANCY RITTER · Post by **FRANCY RITTER** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:05 am

Christian Ankerstjerne wrote:Work is still in progress.

Patience. :)

Thanks Christian...

Paddy Keating · Post by **Paddy Keating** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:06 am

PHP isn't as good as Invision and some of the other generic forum programmes. It's much easier to back up data using a programme like Invision. Believe it or not, some webmasters do not carry out backups.

PK

Christian Ankerstjerne · Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:15 am

Latest update: Apparently, the host company is having a very hard time getting some of the software up and running on the new hard drive. We don't have an ETA at the moment, but there are people working on the problem.

If anyone is having any questions, you are welcome to e-mail Marcusat [email protected] or send me a PM here on Feldgrau.

Naturally, all the sponsors on AHF will be credited in full for the downtime. You'll be contacted by Marcus once the forum is back to normal.

Jason Pipes · Post by **Jason Pipes** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:22 am

Sorry to hear about the continued problems.

If they are rebuilding the database it sounds like information was likely lost. Any idea how much? Anytime someone says they are rebuilding a database it means they either lost everything or they don't have full backups and have to do it by hand. Either way sounds like a bad situation.

Jan-Hendrik · Post by **Jan-Hendrik** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:30 am

Oh, oh.....

Jan-Hendrik