Cold Steel Forums down?

[jlauffer]

Am I the only one that can't get in? Started yesterday or day before.

 

[MountainPeek]

Was just about to post the same topic. Yep, I can't get in either. Giving me some kind of server error.

 

[The Whip]

Yes, I had the same issue.

-Steve

 

[jstrange]

I tried today for the first time in a year and couldn't get on either.

 

[UCPOPO]

I didn't know anyone still went there. Been years since I've been.

 

[G. Scott H.]

All I get is the "Server Error in '/' Application" page.

 

[M31943]

Was working yesterday AM.

 

[A.P.F.]

Crapped out for me too.

 

[Mike Sastre]

It's been down for a few days, including yesterday morning.

 

[ThePeacent]

same for me

 

[GrReaper]

Hadn't checked in a few days and didn't know about that. I just went there about a half hour ago and it was working.

BTW starting a while back my browser gives me an error message when I type in www.coldsteelforums.com into the address bar. When I type it into a search engine and click the result, then I get in. Why is that? It's definitely an issue only on my computer. Anyone tech savvy know how to fix that?

 

[jlauffer]

BTW starting a while back my browser gives me an error message when I type in www.coldsteelforums.com into the address bar. When I type it into a search engine and click the result, then I get in. Why is that? It's definitely an issue only on my computer. Anyone tech savvy know how to fix that?

Same thing happened to me...had it in my favoriites and just stopped working one day. Did a google search, got on that way, then resaved the link...its something like: www.coldsteelforums.com/default.aspx

 

[jbmonkey]

clicked both of y'alls links get an error 404 code....

this worked for me clicking on google link....
.

http://coldsteelforums.com/default.aspx

weirdly. then i cut and pasted it in a new window and it worked fine.

 

[Screwdriver]

clicked both of y'alls links get an error 404 code....

this worked for me clicking on google link....
.

http://coldsteelforums.com/default.aspx

weirdly. then i cut and pasted it in a new window and it worked fine.

Path issue on the server. Probably an update reset some settings and it's pointing to .index

 

[insta9ves]

^ there is no vhost for www.coldsteelforums.com, only for coldsteelforums.com

If you request with the WWW host header you will get 404 not found:

curl -svo /dev/null http://www.coldsteelforums.com/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 75.103.77.31...
* Connected to www.coldsteelforums.com (75.103.77.31) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
> Host: www.coldsteelforums.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
* Server Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 is not blacklisted
< Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
< Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:56:31 GMT
< Connection: close
< Content-Length: 315
<
{ [data not shown]
* Closing connection 0

But if you manually add coldsteel.com as host, you will get redirect to the correct forums destination:

curl -svo /dev/null http://www.coldsteelforums.com/ -H "host: coldsteelforums.com"
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 75.103.77.31...
* Connected to www.coldsteelforums.com (75.103.77.31) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
> Accept: */*
> host: coldsteelforums.com
>
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Location: http://coldsteelforums.com/default.aspx
* Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5 is not blacklisted
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
< X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
< Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:57:49 GMT
< Content-Length: 156
<
{ [data not shown]
* Connection #0 to host www.coldsteelforums.com left intact

 

[insta9ves]

Also, interestingly if you go to either of the below URL under HTTPS you will hit CS Arizone's site.

https://www.coldsteelforums.com/
https://coldsteelforums.com/

 

[GrReaper]

Thanks hkyew, yeah that's the explanation I was looking for: No "vhost" for the www site, just for "coldsteelforums.com". Makes sense now. I guess I wasn't the only one where using the "www" suddenly stopped working. When I type just the "coldsteelforum.com" into the address bar, it works! For a while, I was getting in like jlauffer, by using the link in a google search result. I guess I won't be auditioning for any computer geek jobs anytime soon!