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I'm experiencing something weird.
When i want to post a reply or Edit one of my own replies, i'm getting a "403 - Forbidden"?!?!?!
Can someone confirm?
EDIT: OK, some insight.
I'm getting 403 - Forbidden, when trying to post "any" form of code?!?!?!
In this case it was a snippet (!) of SQL
I posted a snippet wrapped in CODE tags and it worked fine.
Give it another try when you get a chance. Perhaps it was a temporary thing.
Where are you posting?
Did you try here in Feedback?
In Database.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
Just did a take with Code-Tags HERE, and it didn't take (403-Forbidden)
EDIT: Just tried multiple times.
It's not the Code-Tags. it doesn't matter if it's Code-Tags or Quote-Tags
It just doesn't want to take the SQL-Snippet
Another Test:Code:Dim i as long
WHERE ID=5
EDIT: Works
WHERE CN LIKE 'MyName'
EDIT: Works, too.
What it rejects is anything with Quotes followed by ampersand
See syntax here in first post
https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....r&goto=newpost
EDIT:
I think to remember having similiar trouble some months ago when the forum was acting up in a similiar fashion
I updated the closed service ticket with the IT guys.
We are behind a new firewall that is causing the error.
Thx Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
was starting to doubt myself
It should be fixed now.... Please confirm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zvoni
testing:
EDIT: testing EDITCode:Select CN,CNM,TNO,TDT,TOTAL from FLTransactionsTable Where [CN] = '" & txtSearchCustNo.Text & "' AND [TNO] BETWEEN " & txtTNOFROM.Text & " AND " & txtTNOTO.Text & " ORDER BY TDT Desc
EDIT2: Yep. Looks the ticket....
This morning.
Error 503 first byte timeout
first byte timeout
Error 54113
Details: cache-lon420142-LON 1740648763 2612479122
Varnish cache server
I've seen that same error to. It's too random to warrant any action at this time.
Massive lag, timeouts, and errors off and on all morning so far.
I see that...occasionally, but too infrequently to see any pattern.Quote:
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
I got three different errors when I tried to post this. One was the 503 first byte one, followed by a 504 bad gateway, then another 503.
504 Gateway Time-out
Too much lag when the site does load.
I'm getting 504 Gateway Time-out
and occasionally Error 503 first byte timeout
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Error 503 first byte timeout
first byte timeout
Error 54113
Details: cache-lcy-eglc8600042-LCY 1740688494 2841165740
Varnish cache server
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Forum performance is slow. 32,500 users online.
Me too. 504 Gateway Time-out and 503s
I will be creating a service ticket in a few minutes.... If I'm not mistaken, these errors show up on a LOG at the Servers...
This has pretty much been the tell tale sign of trouble:
VBForum
There are currently 33,420 users online. 9 members and 33,411 guests
Most users ever online was 62,681, Jan 17th, 2025 at 03:30 AM.
Under 1,000 would be more the norm.
7 out of 11 sites have the high users online numbers.
Confirmed.
504 - Gateway Time-out as of a few minutes ago
I've had multiple 504 errors for most of the day (including when first trying to post this message!). Also on other related sites (eg codeguru).
We should set up a webcam link so that the mods can see us when we post, a smile, a quick wave and go...
If you google the error messages you quickly get the impression that they are server related.... So everyone is seeing the same errors.
Still getting 504 - Gateway Time-out
still getting
504 Gateway Time-out
or
Error 503 first byte timeout
first byte timeout
Error 54113
Details: cache-mxp6959-MXP 1740926902 3470451145
Varnish cache server
Still getting 504 Gateway Time-out errors
Large number (38,972) of users online.
Over 800 users in VB.NET forum
Over 800 users in VB6 forum
Over 700 users in twinBASIC forum
Very slow.
Almost unusable.
Still sluggish and 504
Monday, March 3rd, 2025 - 08:00 GMT+1 (Germany)
I have quite a few issues with the timeout. Sucks the fun out of it not knowing if I just wasting my time or not.
Timed out trying to post this: I have quite a few issues with the timeout. Sucks the fun out of it not knowing if I just wasting my time or not.
Repeat after me-> "It sucks to be Steve"
I updated the service request ticket pleading for assistance..... Short version of the reply->
"Rest assured, it’s one of my priorities to get these sites stable again!"
Me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by TysonLPrice
Yep, whatever the problem is that started a few weeks ago, it's still there.
I'm getting 503 & 504 errors probably 50% of the time, or more on VBForums, and have been over the last few weeks.
I just keep pounding on "refresh" and eventually get through, but it's quite annoying, and worrisome.
The 503 errors come when I attempt to make a new post. The 504 errors just come when I'm trying to read and navigate around in the forums.
I take it back. It's more like 80% of the time. I had a devil of a time just getting this post posted.
Ohhh, just FYI, I've got a top-notch computer and my speed test pegs in at ~1Gb, so I don't think that's the problem.
Just keep an eye on the number of online users. At the moment, it's over 38,000...and I'm only one of them. When the numbers are that high, these problems seem to happen. They aren't real, though.
1:53 pm...
I've just visited a few sister sites...did several actions - Have NOT seen any errors.
I am having a new issue.... Part of the system won't let me log in.... Yet here I am making a post.
OK..... I killed my cookie for this site..... When I logged back in - it stayed logged in...
I still haven't seen any 503 - 504 ERRORS.
Had login problems too. Also, a couple of other weird things. But the site does seem to be performing better. Still notice there are 26k users.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
From the IT Guys-> "we set a one hour caching rule a little earlier today at our CDN just for VBForums that should have only affected a few top search bots, yet we just removed that rule to see if that helps clear up the issue you were having."Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Seems to be fine at this posting...
It's been fast for me all day, no issues.
As of right now: Fast and furious
I just finished my morning rounds.... aka I visit all eleven sites.... I started off great and then ran into 6 or 7 sites with the same two errors.... Will see how it goes...
504 is back as of a few minuts ago
As of now
Quote:
https://www.vbforums.com/images/misc/users_online.pngCurrently Active Users
There are currently 29791 users online. 9 members and 29782 guests
Most users ever online was 62,681, Jan 17th, 2025 at 03:30 AM.
Much, much better for me :p
I had just posted this:
Much, much better for me...
and it timed out :rolleyes:
Yeah - just had a 504. And when it is working it is very, very sluggish.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Zvoni
~30,000 users online again. If it's AI bots, then as a first measure the site should try asking them nicely to go away in the robots.txt file. Right now vbforums.com has no robots.txt file.
Admins, if you are out there, here's a decent place to start: https://robotstxt.com/ai
I haven't gotten any errors in the last 30 minutes or so.
It is unbelievable that the forum doesn't have a robots.txt file. That's one of the very basic things that any webmaster knows (even amateurs).Quote:
Originally Posted by jpbro
It surprised me too. I expected to see an old robots.txt file without any of the new AI bots listed, not a 404 Not Found error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eduardo-
I checked four of our sister sites and they all had a robots.txt file... They also were getting the errors.
VBF, do it's size is used as a Guinea pig. So the IT Guys were/are probably doing something.....
You can even put a robots.txt to disallow all bots, but that would not be good because you would prevent Google and other search engines from indexing the site.
Usually agents tell you what agents they are in the web petition headers.
It should be possible to investigate what these 38,000 or 25,000 or whatever high number of guests are.
How they identify themselves in the petitions, what are their IP addresses from, etc.
My guess is that they might be only a few hungry spiders. But the question is, once they already downloaded the whole site why they keep downloading the site over and over again? There aren't so many new pages every day.
It should be possible to put them in the robots.txt filter, and if they don't obey it, then block them.
Glad to see the number of users back down and the site is performing well.
I saw this error several times this morning and am wondering if anyone else has seen it too:
This page isn’t working
If the problem continues, contact the site owner.
HTTP ERROR 429
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I have a feeling it's part of the solution that out IT Guys have enabled.Quote:
HTTP Error 429, also known as "Too Many Requests," is a client error response status code indicating that the client has sent too many requests in a given amount of time. This mechanism, commonly referred to as rate limiting, is used to control the rate at which requests are made to a server.
Haven't seen it.
Me, neither.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
On the contrary: Quite snappy today as of right now
It's probably just me... I couldn't recreate it here... But when I go from here to a sister site and clock on a few things including getting into the Admin CP, it shuts me down. And I can't visit any other sister site... Until about 30 to 60 seconds then I'm clear.
Whatever the Tech-Guys did: Thank you. Kudos!
TEST...... Testing MEM issue not displaying threads and posts.
Works again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
EDIT: looks like it
I got another 504 error this morning........
504 friends not found, byte timeout. Forum is broken for me now. Not usable anymore. Might as well be dead if this continues.
Shall we start a "spare" forum on a different location with alternative software, so we can at least share our despair and determine what is going on?
Perhaps it might be time to focus and set up a VBForum discord channel just for VB6 users, another for VB.NET &c. I know the TwinBasic users have it so perhaps it is time to move toward better technology...