An "Other" Prisoner

[Sidewinder]

Alright, who pissed off Santa Claus?

Couldn't login to the forums this morning, kept getting "Opening index.php from http://www.computerhope.com" popup with options to open or save. Finally got to CH main page and was able to login by taking the December poll! This carried me to the "other" board where I am currently trapped. Clicking the home button brings up the popup, all the other buttons work correctly; the links to the forum boards bring up the popup.

 



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[Broni]

This carried me to the "other" board

What is the "other" board? Nasty one?

[WillyW]

Alright, who pissed off Santa Claus?

Couldn't login to the forums this morning, kept getting "Opening index.php from http://www.computerhope.com" popup with options to open or save. Finally got to CH main page and was able to login by taking the December poll! This carried me to the "other" board where I am currently trapped. Clicking the home button brings up the popup, all the other buttons work correctly; the links to the forum boards bring up the popup.

 

Slightly different experience here.      I don't get the pop up at all.

However, I can get to some of the other boards, if I have the link.
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,1.0.html
will take you to the Windows board, for example.

http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html
for the Dos board.

A quick experiment, and I found that I can get to them by changing the number in the url:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,5.0.html
goes to the Hardware board.


www.computerhope.com/forum   just gets me a blank white page though. 

[Broni]

Same here. And very slow.

[Sidewinder]

I also found that if I click on another poster's profile and then click "Show the last posts of this person.", I can get into any of the boards that the other poster has visited.

If I go to http://www.computerhope.com all is well, but if I click on the forum link, i get a white blank browser window.

I suspect the problem is with index.php. Shouldn't this run on the server instead of wanting to download to the user machine?

Oh well, just another fun present from St. Nick. Bah Humbug. 

[Broni]

I suspect the problem is with index.php

No. http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php is normal forum address.

[WillyW]

I've got it!

It's a test!!   

No more CH for everybody.   CH is now only for people that are smart enough to figure out how to use it!!

I is a  gene-ree-us!       Are yoo wun to?



 

[homer]

it seems as though the forum index is down. every topic i have been to works fine if given a direct link to it.

[Broni]

Yep...

[Dilbert]

I have an identical problem; I am unable to access the main boards. Perhaps someone could drop Nathan a line via email?

[dl65]

I sent Nathan a message.

dl65 

[Zylstra]

Yes, something went completely wrong. http://www.computerhope.com/forum.htm explains it all

"Admin notice: The forums have encountered an issue that I've yet been able to identify and resolve. I've been working with the ISP who seems to believe it's an forum related issue. The forum appears to work fine as long as you don't attempt to access the main page (index.php) directly. Below is a link to each of the forum boards as a temporary solution. I'm sorry I haven't been able to answer all incoming e-mails about this issue as I've been trying to focus first on getting it resolved."

[dairyman]

Alright, who pissed off Santa Claus?

LOL

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This morning, when I tried to log on to CH forums, I didn't get this error.
Instead, I got "SMF could not connect to database. This may be caused by the server being busy blah blah blah blah blah blah." I assume this is because SMF has done self maintenance?

Then again, I'm not expert at PHP or MySQL... 

[Computer Hope Admin]

Thought that I'd make some type of mention on the forums. Some type of Christmas present this is. I've been working with my ISP and SMF for the last few days and neither of them or me are able to determine what's causing this issue. ISP seems to think it's a SMF issue even though nothing was changed on the forum and this just all the sudden started happening and SMF seems to think that pretty much any time out issue is caused on the ISP's side.

Really a tough issue spent 12+ hours trying various things yesterday and it appears that today may be the same.

It doesn't appear the that forums are getting overloaded so I don't think they're getting slashdotted or digged or anything. I honestly don't know what's going on other than the big cell phone bill this month.

[WillyW]

It's working now!             

What did you do to un-clog things?   Use the super-sized plunger on it?