I made a portfolio website using a Jekyll template in Github Pages. 16 hours or so ago, I connected the Github pages site to a personal domain I purchased. I did so by creating a CNAME folder in the Pages repository and adding this CNAME as well as a few A variables to the DNS records with my domain provider (Domain.com) An hour or so after making these DNS changes, Github pages said my site was published on the new domain.
I shared the link to my new website with a few people. Several of them were able to access it without any issue; however, some reported that they received an empty white page when arriving to the site or a generic page with messaging along the lines of 'this domain hasn't been set up.' The failure to see the site seems to have no pattern across browser or device.
For me personally, I was able to see the site last night but this morning after deploying some new changes, I couldn't see the site for 30 minutes or so, until it suddenly worked again. During the time I couldn't see it, other friends reported that they were able to view it.
Any idea why this might be happening? I'm brand new to this stuff and I can't figure it out.
You could use dnsmap.io and check if the CNAME propagation is complete or still in progress.
You can see more at "Why are my CNAME Records not propagating?": that would explain the empty white page.
That being said, this could also be affected by an GitHub incident currently pending.
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I've been running Google Ad Manager on a client's website - https://www.thewire.co.uk since 2012 without issue until July 2020 when suddenly adverts stopped appearing on the home page, though they still appear on the rest of the site. I did a deep dive into the issue at the time and could find not clear problem or solution. It's not been an issue for most of the last year, but now we need to resolve it.
What's odd is that the adverts appear if I visit the same page via a different URL, eg, https://www.thewire.co.uk/?foo=bar (query string is ignored by server) or https://www.thewire.co.uk/home/ (this is serving the same page from a different uri)
All the adverts we serve are line items we load up to Ad Manager directly - we don't use adsense. We have some in house adverts running which are set to deliver when specific slots aren't loaded, so for instance there is a leaderboard at the top of every page which should always have an advert. MPUs on the right hand column are set to collapse if no advert is picked.
When I check delivery using Ad Manager debug tool I am informed adverts are delivering correctly, and the adverts show. But in normal viewing it is not.
This is happening consistently across browsers, devices and with/without ad blockers installed, and on 'vanilla' systems running on new ISP networks across several countries, which I believe counters out any limits that may be created by cookies and IP addresses or location.
I've scoured the Google Ad Manager settings in case some form of serving block was in place, but I've found nothing, and no notifications of any limitations on our home page URL, so I'm completely stumped as to why.
I've checked the google tags and embed codes on our site and they are all OK - they are pulled from a template which is used consistently across the site, and they obviously work when I look at the same HTML via a different context, which leads me to believe the issue is some blocking in place for the specific https://www.thewire.co.uk url from Google's side.
Has anyone had any similar issue and have advise on how to resolve or able to point me to somewhere in google I can get specific support for this issue? Searches through help and the support forums have turned up nothing.
There are numerous work arounds I could apply (eg an http 301 or 302 redirect / to /home/ ) but I really want to solve the problem, not work round it only for it to arise again.
There's a previous topic on StackOverflow - Google Ads not showing on my home page - but that shows no resolution. So posting this maybe the same issue in case my necromancy on that doesn't work. The solutions linked in the comments on that post are either outdated or don't work.
I've gotten part way through deploying my new webapp on PythonAnywhere, and currently it's got the 'Coming Soon' place holder.
When I refresh the app from the web tab it tells me I need to set the CNAME,and from what I remember that involves redirecting from my Domain Service (Gandi in this case).
There is a problem with your domain name configuration. Take a look at the DNS setup section below for details. Be aware that DNS changes can take some time to propagate across the internet. The exact time they take will depend on your domain configuration, but it could be as long as a day.
You domain's current CNAME is webredir.vip.gandi.net. Check this help page for more information about how to set it up correctly.
I don't want to do that yet.
What I want is to 'preview' my page at webapp-XXXXXX.pythonanywhere.com before it goes live.
This suggests that I:
add a line with the IP address you got from the previous step, then a tab, then the host name you've set up the web app with in PythonAnywhere.
But I've not found that to work, and besides, how would that let me see what's hosted online? It would just let me access it via a different URL.
Here what I added to my hosts file:
50.19.109.98 webapp-206115.pythonanywhere.com/
How can I test my website on PythonAnywhere before setting up my CNAME?
The easiest solution i found for this is to rename the webapp to <username>.pythonanywhere.com. Thats the default for the free subscription and it still works for me after i change to a payed plan. But i dont know if this is because i already had registered a webapp under this name or if this always works.
We have been working on a gaming website. Recently while making note of the major traffic sources I noticed a website that I found to be a carbon-copy of our website. It uses our logo,everything same as ours but a different domain name. It cannot be, that domain name is pointing to our domain name. This is because at several places links are like ccwebsite/our-links. That website even has links to some images as ccwebsite/our-images.
What has happened ? How could have they done that ? What can I do to stop this ?
There are a number of things they might have done to copy your site, including but not limited to:
Using a tool to scrape a complete copy of your site and place it on their server
Use their DNS name to point to your site
Manually re-create your site as their own
Respond to requests to their site by scraping yours real-time and returning that as the response
etc.
What can I do to stop this?
Not a whole lot. You can try to prevent direct linking to your content by requiring referrer headers for your images and other resources so that requests need to come from pages you serve, but 1) those can be faked and 2) not all browsers will send those so you'd break a small percentage of legitimate users. This also won't stop anybody from copying content, just from "deep linking" to it.
Ultimately, by having a website you are exposing that information to the internet. On a technical level anybody can get that information. If some information should be private you can secure that information behind a login or other authorization measures. But if the information is publicly available then anybody can copy it.
"Stopping this" is more of a legal/jurisdictional/interpersonal concern than a technical one I'm afraid. And Stack Overflow isn't in a position to offer that sort of advice.
You could run your site with some lightweight authentication. Just issue a cookie passively when they pull a page, and require the cookie to get access to resources. If a user visits your site and then the parallel site, they'll still be able to get in, but if a user only knows about the parallel site and has never visited the real site, they will just see a crap ton of broken links and images. This could be enough to discourage your doppelganger from keeping his site up.
Another (similar but more complex) option is to implement a CSRF mitigation. Even though this isn't a CSRF situation, the same mitigation will work. Essentially you'd issue a cookie as described above, but in addition insert the cookie value in the URLs for everything and require them to match. This requires a bit more work (you'll need a filter or module inserted into the pipeline) but will keep out everybody except your own users.
I facing a problem please help me.
I have changed my hosting & uploaded joomla 2.5 webiste to our new host, but front page not loaded & administrator working very fine. I have uploaded many times but still it is not working.There is no errors showing on the site. i am very confused how to solve this problem.
i request to all please solve my problem.
My domain is http://indiataxionline.in/
working Domain http://indiataxionline.com/
Thanks in Advance
Perhaps this is the new domain name and related information in the DNS has not refreshed. As a rule, it may take 24-48 hours.
Ping command in the console does not find the node that confirms this.
It is also possible in the site settings are incorrect NS records.
I am trying to reference my .asmx webservices in .NET but my server is not exposed to the internet. When I put on the following address I get the message mentioned below. What's the reason for not being able to see the directory? Am I missing something in my IIS configuraction? Am I missing anything in my permissions? Just as reference I have other folders with webservices and I have the same issue.
When I login to the server I am doing it with my windows user and password (I am using windows authentication). It's necessary to mention that when I put the URL I am getting a popup screen to put in my userid and password but it seems that's not able to validate since keeps asking me a couple of times. Let me know if you need more information to address this issue .
http://appsvr02/Inetpub/wwwroot/DevWebApi/
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
What you can try:
It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet.
Retype the address.
Go back to the previous page.
Most likely causes:
•You are not connected to the Internet.
•The website is encountering problems.
•There might be a typing error in the address.
More information
This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including:
•Internet connectivity has been lost.
•The website is temporarily unavailable.
•The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable.
•The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain.
•If this is an HTTPS (secure) address, click tools, click Internet Options, click Advanced, and check to be sure the SSL and TLS protocols are enabled under the security section.
For offline users
You can still view subscribed feeds and some recently viewed webpages.
To view subscribed feeds
1.Click the Favorites Center button , click Feeds, and then click the feed you want to view.
To view recently visited webpages (might not work on all pages)
1.Click Tools , and then click Work Offline.
2.Click the Favorites Center button , click History, and then click the page you want to view.
Try http://appsvr02/DevWebApi.
You shouldn't need to specify the full path, as IIS serves from wwwroot by default.
I don't know what I did but I was able to see it this time. thank youa all for your input. This is how the path to my server shows now. http://appsvr02/DevWeApi/Owner.asmx