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no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby thomas » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:33 pm

Is it just me but no smilies display anywhere in the forum, I'm not a great fan of them, but I like some in moderation, I can't even see them when other people use them, just the tags :whateversmilie: are displayed. I actually get a 403, forbidden, fetching them.

[tommy@box ~]$ wget images/smilies/respekt.gif
--2012-01-23 22:27:53-- images/smilies/respekt.gif
Resolving http://www.vauxhallviva.com... 67.15.104.40
Connecting to http://www.vauxhallviva.com|67.15.104.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2012-01-23 22:27:53 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

I've disabled my local instance of squid and various redirector programs, rewriting content, it certainly isn't a local configuration issue as far as I can tell.

BBCode is ON
[img] is ON
[flash] is OFF
[url] is ON
Smilies are ON

It looks horrible, smilies are a right not a privilege!
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby pbottomley » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:52 am

LOL Thomas, don't spit your dummy out, nothing is a right life is a privilege.

BUT that said you should have access to them? along with everyone else who uses the forum.... NO-ONE has had them disabled, your profile on the forum is the same as all other paid up members so nothing should be missing....

Please clear your cache and try again, I suspect its just the forum sulking, I will kick it in the nadds and see if its more responsive.

Try a PM to me and see if the same thing still happens... :goodluck:
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby thomas » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:10 pm

Still largely dysfunctional website, many of the links have no alt text so I have have to view the page source to find links, have no icons to indicate new posts, icons to edit posts, quote messages etc are all missing, site just looks like a mess of broken html, it has from the very start. Obviously this is a server issue, the server returns 403 Forbidden for almost all graphic content.
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127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/site_logo.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_post_target.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/site_logo.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/help3.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_post_target.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/share_on_buttons/shareon_facebook.png HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/share_on_buttons/shareon_twitter.png HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/share_on_buttons/shareon_myspace.png HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/new2_goodluck.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1807 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/bg_header.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_textbox_search.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/bg_button.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_home.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_fontsize.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_sendemail.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_print.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_ucp.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_bump.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_faq.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_members.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_contact.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_logout.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/button_topic_reply.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/icon_user_online.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_post_report.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/icon_post_quote.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/icon_contact_pm.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_contact_email.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_back_top.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_contact_www.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/icon_contact_msnm.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/arrow_left.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/ranks/3.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1800 TCP_MISS:DIRECT
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_subscribe.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_bookmark.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:52 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/en/icon_post_edit.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1800 TCP_MISS:DIRECT
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:53 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/highslide/graphics/loader.white.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:56:53 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/highslide/graphics/outlines/rounded-white.png HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/imageset/site_logo.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_textbox_search.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/bg_button.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_home.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/bg_header.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_fontsize.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/styles/se_square_left/theme/images/icon_logout.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1809 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=3&t=17676 HTTP/1.1" 200 31115 TCP_MISS:DIRECT
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_cry.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Feb/2012:20:57:10 +0000] "GET http://www.vauxhallviva.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 1808 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT:NONE     


This is doing my head in. It isn't just smilies but the basic bits and bobs that constitute the design of the site and make it usable, even the banner along the top has always been missing, with just a black box displayed in the top quarter of the screen; the site is just a mess, unusable without a great effort.

Any progress been made on getting to the bottom of this?
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby pbottomley » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:40 pm

Sorry thomas, no one else is having this issue..

I have no idea what is going on, when I find some time I will speak to the hosts and provide them your fixed IP and see what they have to say... I work full time and this is a voluntary thing, they work 9-5 so I have to try and find time during work to get hold of them... might take a while but I will try to see if there is some issue ....

Please try logging into site using someone elses PC (obviously not via your ZEN adsl) and see if it works... that way it will confirm the account and profile are correctly working.... If that works then we have some progress on what might be at issue.
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby thomas » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:36 am

Thanks Paul, Don't get me wrong or take this the wrong way, no criticism or complaint is implied or intended - I'm well aware of the voluntary nature of the site and the great deal of work that has gone into it, before posters even begin making their own appreciable contributions - I've raised this again purely in a spirit of curiosity and co-operation in getting to the bottom of it. For many this site IS the club -in its entirety, particularly for those far removed from the southern-centric club heartlands; the magazines, shows, spares events, committees and bureacracy are secondary - remote irrelevancies - even if that is counter to the evolution of the club, where an online resource and contact point was latter-stage icing on an already tasty cake.

It does seem to be a server issue, whether the blacklisting is on an IP basis (this is a static IP block, I've only had these since October 2011) or results from an over-large blacklist of the whole 82.69.0.0/17 subnet or greater, isn't clear; there's no point in me requesting a different /29 from zen, to accomodate one website, and then finding the problem persists; if the hosting company or the server instance (this is more likely as all the 403's redirect (custom error handling ?) to a red on white griffin logo and then again after a few seconds to the the top level homepage) are blacklisting huge swathes of ip address space from accessing most non-text content, this can be resolved. As we discussed by phone a few weeks back, I doubt I'm singularly affected by this, just no-one else has noticed what's wrong or thought it worthwhile delving deeper, I've spent some time eliminating every possible likely and unlikely local cause; transient users might just consider the site a W-I-P (like many of our cars) and think registering or joining would probably resolve it.

Any further information I can give you, don't hesitate to ask. I'll try your suggestion too.

Feel free if you wish to move this thread from the public area to members only chat or similar.

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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby fistfullofV5's » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:01 am

Just sat here in work on a brew and all seems well with site on my phone. :D Most of what you said sailed straight over my head. Maybe the IT mantra of turn it off and turn it on again would solve the issue.
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby viva les vegas » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:18 am

Apart from my phone randomly wanting to ring the IP address above, everything appears "normal" to me too :?
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby thomas » Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:48 pm

Sorted now, incredible, what a difference.

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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby pbottomley » Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:10 pm

Yep Thomas and me have found the issue, a proper fix is coming , for now its a temp bodge :) I hope you like what you see now Thomas?
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Re: no smilies displayed anywhere in forum :(

Postby thomas » Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:33 pm

Yep, it's looking good, I'm exploring the vast range of brill smilies and buttons and stuff have appeared all over the place.

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