Reply to: New Forum Bug Reports

[sadkingbilly]

Wot 'e Said ^^

[Dorkeaux]

It appears that the site certificate for contractoruk.com has expired.

Now throwing up the usual warnings in my browser that you may be trying to steal my credit card details.
Long may it profit you..

Time for another few bob in the meter.

[DoctorStrangelove]

TPD is borked. .

[cojak]

Admin has fixed it.

[cojak]

It looks like someone has forgotten to put a quid in the box.

The CUK certificate has expired.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I just got a "this connection is not private are you sure you want to proceed".

You & me both.

Currently incognito since that actually allows access FFS.

[WTFH]

I just got a "this connection is not private are you sure you want to proceed".

[NickFitz]

TPD is broken. It's completely empty




EDIT: Latest Activity view works but the post count is missing from that and there's an interesting post number coming up...

It’s back!

No idea what happened, but I posted in the blind last night, and the post is in there now

Spoiler alert: work has commenced on getting rid of this terrible version of vBulletin and moving to something else which doesn’t fall over all the time. Watch this space…

[ladymuck]

TPD is broken. It's completely empty




EDIT: Latest Activity view works but the post count is missing from that and there's an interesting post number coming up...

[ladymuck]

I have https://forums.contractoruk.com bookmarked but clicking that results in 'the server took too long to respond'. If I navigate via the CUK website then the forums pop up fine but the URL is the same. What gives?

[NickFitz]

And there it was: gone.

Then it came back.

DNS

Gone:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> a forums.contractoruk.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27061
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1220
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forums.contractoruk.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
contractoruk.com. 31 IN SOA *** various stuff*** 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 02 12:08:10 BST 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 133

Back:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> a forums.contractoruk.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12475
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1220
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forums.contractoruk.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
forums.contractoruk.com. 198 IN A 15.188.105.180

;; Query time: 19 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 02 17:28:25 BST 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 68

[DoctorStrangelove]

And there it was: gone.

Then it came back.

[NickFitz]

I suspect it's a Chrome problem as I had the same problem with the BBC site yesterday. In bookmark manager I found that the CUK and BBC bookmarks were http because I had saved them a long time ago. Normally a browser would automatically switch to the latest url? Edge etc do.

I expect most of us have old bookmarks/favourites we saved a long time ago.

Ah, that's interesting! The site should automatically redirect from http to https, so maybe there's a problem with how that's configured. Or maybe Chrome is trying to do something a bit too clever for its own good - often a problem with Google products these days!

[xoggoth]

I suspect it's a Chrome problem as I had the same problem with the BBC site yesterday. In bookmark manager I found that the CUK and BBC bookmarks were http because I had saved them a long time ago. Normally a browser would automatically switch to the latest url? Edge etc do.

I expect most of us have old bookmarks/favourites we saved a long time ago.

[NickFitz]

Few times in last 2 days not been able to access site, message says "forums.contractoruk.com doesn't support a secure connection with HTTPS"

I've noticed that (or something similar) occasionally, though not for a while. From what I could tell, the new owner has been doing something to do with the certificates that allow for secure connections, probably setting up a system to ensure they're renewed properly before they expire. But that's just conjecture on my part! If that's what it is, then I assume it'll stop once such a system is stable