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Ugh…that has been a problem that some of our users have been having for a while, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why that is happening. I apologize, and I will keep on trying to solve this mystery…
Ugh...that has been a problem that some of our users have been having for a while, and for the life of me I cannot figure out why that is happening. I apologize, and I will keep on trying to solve this mystery...
Thanks -- I feel better knowing I am not alone.
It's IP Address related I'm sure. If you have a dynamic IP Address you may at times be within the range Phid has flagged for some spammers. When your IP Address changes again, you are back outside the flagged range. If it's not this, I don't know what else it can be.
It's IP Address related I'm sure. If you have a dynamic IP Address you may at times be within the range Phid has flagged for some spammers. When your IP Address changes again, you are back outside the flagged range. If it's not this, I don't know what else it can be.
The thing is, the spammers that I block should get a message saying that they are blocked, or get some "access denied" message. I'm not sure why anyone would be redirected to Wikipedia... ???
It's IP Address related I'm sure. If you have a dynamic IP Address you may at times be within the range Phid has flagged for some spammers. When your IP Address changes again, you are back outside the flagged range. If it's not this, I don't know what else it can be.
Is it something your server does? It might be in your root directory of your hotdocs or your .htaccess file (something your host does by default).The thing is, the spammers that I block should get a message saying that they are blocked, or get some "access denied" message. I'm not sure why anyone would be redirected to Wikipedia... ???
It started happening to me at home again yesterday and was still like that this morning. Luckily, I can still get on at work. The fact that I can get on at work convinces me it has something to do with IP Adresses because at hamoe it is dynamic while at work I have a static IP Adress.That makes me think of an experiment. I think I will disconnect and reconnect tonight from my home wireless network and see if that fixes it.
I am officially an idiot. So I decided to look into my .htaccess file (something I would have thought I did a long time ago when the problem first emerged) and I saw the following lines inserted into the code:
Code:RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 88.RewriteRule .* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History#Historical_methods [R]That means that whenever someone with an IP address that began with "88" came to the site, they were redirected to the historical methods section of Wikipedia. Argh! I would have thought I would have checked there when this problem first started popping up! The thing is, I don't remember modifying .htaccess (it was done so on February 27, 2009). I'm not sure if someone else did this or what (or if I did it and just forgot). Anyway, my apologies for all this mess. I deleted the lines above and so people shouldn't be experiencing the problem again. Signed, the Mindless Webmaster.
I am officially an idiot. So I decided to look into my .htaccess file (something I would have thought I did a long time ago when the problem first emerged) and I saw the following lines inserted into the code:
Code:RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 88.RewriteRule .* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History#Historical_methods [R]That means that whenever someone with an IP address that began with "88" came to the site, they were redirected to the historical methods section of Wikipedia. Argh! I would have thought I would have checked there when this problem first started popping up! The thing is, I don't remember modifying .htaccess (it was done so on February 27, 2009). I'm not sure if someone else did this or what (or if I did it and just forgot). Anyway, my apologies for all this mess. I deleted the lines above and so people shouldn't be experiencing the problem again. Signed, the Mindless Webmaster.
I remember when you did that. I think we talked about it in PM's somewhere.
