My forums are installed at
https://www.youthdebate.co.uk/forums . Normally when I load this it works fine, but for some reason in the last couple of days it's broken. The site still works perfectly at
https://www.youthdebate.co.uk/forums/index.php . Obviously not everyone knows to use this URL, so activity has dropped significantly. No new plugins or updates. Any ideas? ThanksÂ
Also, I forgot to add, this only happens the first time I boot up the site after a while. When I've then gone to /forums/index.php and try loading just /forums again it works fine. It's not working that first time though, so nobody is getting in. This is really confusing me.
I'm not seeing any problems with your site. It loads very quickly. I am seeing though that you have some non-https content on it.
(2014-08-22, 11:58 AM)spork985 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not seeing any problems with your site. It loads very quickly. I am seeing though that you have some non-https content on it.
Thanks... Castiel
Could you give me an example/some advice? I'm new to the back-end online worldÂ
That makes my original issue seem even stranger though, because some people have reported the same problem but others are getting on fine.
Can you define 'broken'? 404 page? Browser error page? What does it actually do?
Your Apache configuration should mean that index.php is treated as a directory index (i.e. going to just /forums will find index.php like it should) so we'll need to know what actually happens when it breaks.
Maybe your server gets overloaded and resets before completing the request so not all files get downloaded like CSS and as a result site looks broken. From my end it looks OK.
An endless loading page, it never even gets to a 404 or Chrome's "unable to load webpage". It just loads, and loads and loads. And loads. It doesn't happen to everyone though, maybe 30% of our users from the volume of complaints.
Mine use to to do this a lot, I had to contact my web host and they told me sometimes the problem is in .htaccess file...you could look into that and see if there's anything different added in there or not.
Hmm, but you've never had it with index.php in the URL? I think it may be a red herring as they shouldn't behave any differently, as the difference between /forums and /forums/index.php is handled at the server level, and shouldn't be doing anything differently to make it hang. It sounds to me like some sort of network latency issue to be honest, but as it doesn't happen for me it's hard to test
