[Resolved]Suddenly... Forbidden access to Gramps Wiki

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I am unable to access any Gramps wiki URL. Anyone else having this problem?

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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If the htaccess is the problem, can it be changed while being fixed? to allow DuckDuckGo to index the site?

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Yes. I had a problem yesterday and also earlier today. Weblate also seems to detect a problem and raise a warning.

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I am also having this issue.

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I’m investigating what has happened, will report back.

Wiki was working six hours ago when I last checked.

Sam

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asked the Duck.AI … Its answer was a bit overzealous. Also included blocking the competition

To allow DuckDuckGo to index your site while blocking other bots, you can use the .htaccess file to create rules that specifically allow DuckDuckGo’s crawler. DuckDuckGo uses the user-agent string DuckDuckBot. Here’s how you can set it up:

  1. Access your .htaccess file: This file is usually located in the root directory of your website. You can access it via FTP or through your web hosting control panel.
  2. Add the following code: Insert the following lines into your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On

# Allow DuckDuckGo
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DuckDuckBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# Block all other bots
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(bot|crawl|slurp|spider|archive|wget|curl).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]
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Thanks confirming nothing to do with the htaccess file

Waiting a2hosting to respond to ticket, will update later.

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We are fortunate that the WordPress (with its Download page links to GitHub), Sphinx and redirect to the MantisBT portions are still working. The SourceForge Mailing lists and, of course, this forum are hosted elsewhere.

Just the MediaWiki is affected.

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Correct.

Waiting on A2hosting.

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MantisBT now has a yellow header:

Gramps Wiki is currently not available
The Gramps Wiki currently not available. Please check back later. Any questions please contact webmaster@gramps-project.org

But it accepted a note added moments before that appeared in:
https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13660

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Wiki is back.

Seems to have been a permissions issue on the wiki directory and this was fixed by a2hosting.

Thank you all for your patience.

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MantisBT (and the wiki ) is reporting a Bad Gateway Host error.

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host has been restarted please wait.

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Half an hour later.

MantisBT is taking 30-45 second to respond to any request. (The warning banner is now gone though.)

The wiki is taking in excess of a minute per page

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Backup in progress, please be patient for at least 3 hours sorry!

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Thanks for all the effort today… and all those other behind the scenes tasks that keep the site running.

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Done. Website should be back to normal.

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