Separated bots and users

[thecaretaker]

Just for info, I've added an extension that separates registered users and allowed bots in the statistics shown at the bottom of the index page.

Screenshot 2024-03-15 072653.webp

[Vera]

Most of us know little of the statistics you manage CT but we are all grateful for your diligence.

[thecaretaker]

I just noticed the site redirects were not working correctly. I'm going to post all options here so I can check them periodically. I have no idea how long these have not been working

https://www.thecaretakers.net
https://thecaretakers.net

https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk
https://thecaretakers.co.uk

https://www.ctw.myzen.co.uk
https://ctw.myzen.co.uk

All links should direct to https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk/phpBB3/

[magpie]

All gobbledegook to me CT but once again we are all indebted to your expertise

[PalaceEagles]

I can’t say I understand anything about bots and user but I’m having problems logging in on my school PC. Does this have anything to do with this? Our IT technician has looked into this and can’t understand why. I’m having to use my mobile to log on to read the posts.

[thecaretaker]

I can’t say I understand anything about bots and user but I’m having problems logging in on my school PC. Does this have anything to do with this? Our IT technician has looked into this and can’t understand why. I’m having to use my mobile to log on to read the posts.

It may have been if you only typed in the site url e.g. https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk

The site redirect that redirects all site traffic to https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk/phpBB3/ wasn't working correctly. It's all fixed now though

EDIT: Not my fault, the host added a php file for a new add-on which messed up the redirect.

Did it look like this when you visited?

Screenshot 2024-03-15 123413.png

[magpie]

It may have been if you only typed in the site url e.g. https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk

The site redirect that redirects all site traffic to https://www.thecaretakers.co.uk/phpBB3/ wasn't working correctly. It's all fixed now though

EDIT: Not my fault, the host added a php file for a new add-on which messed up the redirect.

Did it look like this when you visited?


Screenshot 2024-03-15 123413.png

I had that screen over the last couple of days but clicked on the index to get where i wanted to be

[Nail]

I can’t say I understand anything about bots and user but I’m having problems logging in on my school PC. Does this have anything to do with this? Our IT technician has looked into this and can’t understand why. I’m having to use my mobile to log on to read the posts.

Mine has just stopped allowing access too. I assume it’s the school IT dept clamping down.

[thecaretaker]

Mine has just stopped allowing access too. I assume it’s the school IT dept clamping down.

If you get a chance, try again now. I had manually adjusted the redirect to each possible URL, not realising that the first one on the list redirects to ALL URL's anyway. So I've now removed all the individual ones and it seems to be working correctly now.

It's due to the host offering a website builder package (allowing folk with little knowledge to make their own website) and adding an index.php file at the root folder. I know normally a server will follow an index.html which is normally the first page of any website. But this index.php completely threw me not knowing how it affected things. It is obviously some means to redirect to the web builder software. I've deleted it off the server and it all went back to normal. Well, it would have done if I hadn't tried fixing it by adding load of my own redirects.