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    Wikipedia Down?

    If I go to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia all I see is a holding page & any links to Wikipedia articles from Google are resulting in 404 errors. Bizarre.

    #2
    Originally posted by wurzel View Post
    If I go to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia all I see is a holding page & any links to Wikipedia articles from Google are resulting in 404 errors. Bizarre.
    Fine here
    Me, me, me...

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      #3
      Move to Technical?

      Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
      Fine here
      I see a page with this:

      Placeholder page
      The owner of this web site has not put up any web pages yet. Please come back later.
      You should replace this page with your own web pages as soon as possible.
      Unless you changed its configuration, your new server is configured as follows:
      Configuration files can be found in /etc/lighttpd. Please read /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/README file.
      The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your HTML files should exist, is set to /var/www.
      CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where Ubuntu packages will place their scripts. You can enable cgi module by using command "lighty-enable-mod cgi".
      Log files are placed in /var/log/lighttpd, and will be rotated weekly. The frequency of rotation can be easily changed by editing /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd.
      The default directory index is index.html, meaning that requests for a directory /foo/bar/ will give the contents of the file /var/www/foo/bar/index.html if it exists (assuming that /var/www is your DocumentRoot).
      You can enable user directories by using command "lighty-enable-mod userdir"

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        #4
        Originally posted by wurzel View Post
        I see a page with this:

        Placeholder page
        The owner of this web site has not put up any web pages yet. Please come back later.
        You should replace this page with your own web pages as soon as possible.
        Unless you changed its configuration, your new server is configured as follows:
        Configuration files can be found in /etc/lighttpd. Please read /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/README file.
        The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your HTML files should exist, is set to /var/www.
        CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where Ubuntu packages will place their scripts. You can enable cgi module by using command "lighty-enable-mod cgi".
        Log files are placed in /var/log/lighttpd, and will be rotated weekly. The frequency of rotation can be easily changed by editing /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd.
        The default directory index is index.html, meaning that requests for a directory /foo/bar/ will give the contents of the file /var/www/foo/bar/index.html if it exists (assuming that /var/www is your DocumentRoot).
        You can enable user directories by using command "lighty-enable-mod userdir"
        Looks like you're hitting an Ubuntu server with Lighttpd as the webserver, seems unlikely that's where WP is coming from. Are you being redirected from somewhere? Have you tried another browser?
        Me, me, me...

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          #5
          Originally posted by wurzel View Post
          I see a page with this:

          Placeholder page
          The owner of this web site has not put up any web pages yet. Please come back later.
          You should replace this page with your own web pages as soon as possible.
          Unless you changed its configuration, your new server is configured as follows:
          Configuration files can be found in /etc/lighttpd. Please read /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/README file.
          The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your HTML files should exist, is set to /var/www.
          CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where Ubuntu packages will place their scripts. You can enable cgi module by using command "lighty-enable-mod cgi".
          Log files are placed in /var/log/lighttpd, and will be rotated weekly. The frequency of rotation can be easily changed by editing /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd.
          The default directory index is index.html, meaning that requests for a directory /foo/bar/ will give the contents of the file /var/www/foo/bar/index.html if it exists (assuming that /var/www is your DocumentRoot).
          You can enable user directories by using command "lighty-enable-mod userdir"
          Perhaps you've got a poisoned DNS server or some other sneaky hack attack and it's redirecting you to some dodginess. What does nslookup say?

          Tis fine for me. 208.80.152.2 is the address I'm getting for wikipedia.org
          While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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            #6
            Fine here +1

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              #7
              Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
              Looks like you're hitting an Ubuntu server with Lighttpd as the webserver, seems unlikely that's where WP is coming from. Are you being redirected from somewhere? Have you tried another browser?
              Originally posted by doodab View Post
              Perhaps you've got a poisoned DNS server or some other sneaky hack attack and it's redirecting you to some dodginess. What does nslookup say?

              Tis fine for me. 208.80.152.2 is the address I'm getting for wikipedia.org
              91.198.174.232 here. I entered 208.80.152.2 in the address bar & I following that I can now browse normally to en.wikipedia.org. Weird.

              Can't remember wtf it was I was looking up now.

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                #8
                yes, I suspect a virus has taken control of your browser. I had one a bit ago that did similar things for Wikipedia and Microsoft sites, but only when you tried to get to them via a Google link. The Google Redirect Virus, t'internet liked to call it.

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                  #9
                  It's OK here. Scan your machine after disconnecting from the internet.
                  +50 Xeno Geek Points
                  Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
                  As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by wurzel View Post
                    91.198.174.232 here. I entered 208.80.152.2 in the address bar & I following that I can now browse normally to en.wikipedia.org. Weird.

                    Can't remember wtf it was I was looking up now.
                    Did you look at Wikileaks earlier?

                    I understand that the US is snooping IP addresses, running them through a secret person identifier, banning users from wikipedia & other sites and then despatching a snatch squad of highly trained CIA agents to apprehend said user.

                    Was that the door Wurzel?
                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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