CBFS down?

[Kevin Farnell]

For the past 24 hours or so, whenever I've clicked on my link to CBFS (on the 'Bookmarks header' of Firefox), I've been taken to just a white screen (I was concerned that CBFS had been hacked). I tried copying and pasting the web address from Firefox into Microsoft Edge, which said that 'This page isn't working right now'. Using Firefox, I searched Google for 'Classic British Flight Sim' and clicking on the link got straight in. I'm not sure if something has changed at CBFS, or my link had become corrupt. Looking at my history, the link that no longer worked was 'https://cbfsim.co.uk/CBFS_HOME.php'. The new link that works is 'index.php'.
I have now updated my link, so hopefully all should be well.

[EDIT} Once into CBFS, both 'Home' and 'Forum' link to the forum (both showing the same web address), there appears to no longer be a Homepage.

Kevin

[TSR2]

Hi Kevin,

I did put an announcement up saying I’m having some problems with the main pages at the moment and I’d try and get it sorted over the next few days. In the mean time I have redirected the homepage here. Its not been hacked, just a problem since an update to the php handler which is affecting the root site.

p.s. If you use the bookmark https://cbfsim.co.uk it will mean that you should always get any redirects etc that we may have to put on from time to time.

[Archer]

By default, your browser will look for a file named 'index.html' or variations on that. As Ben indicated, it is better to only bookmark the top level domain and not a specific page within that domain.

[Kevin Farnell]

As Ben indicated, it is better to only bookmark the top level domain and not a specific page within that domain.

Isn't the homepage (which is what I had bookmarked), the top level domain?

Kevin

[TSR2]

Hi Kevin,

You had link to a specific page (which happened to be the homepage) but not the top level domain. The top level domain is just https://cbfsim.co.uk
As Jelle mentioned, every site has an index.html file in its root folder. Sometimes the homepage is contained in that file, but more often it will instantly send you do a different page which is the actual home page. If a problem occurs with the actual home page and you have linked directly to that, theres no way for the website to change where you are going. In this case the part of the webserver which handles php files isn’t working as it should. So there is no way I could redirect that page.

[Vancouver]

I find little to no point in coming here any more as all that is discussed seems to be Wordle.

[TSR2]

I find little to no point in coming here any more as all that is discussed seems to be Wordle.

Feel free to start a discussion. You’re right of course, but if nobody has anything to say, and no one starts anything it’s difficult to get going.

[Archer]

Isn't the homepage (which is what I had bookmarked), the top level domain?

To muddy the water a bit more, you can also have subdomains. In that case you have either something other than www in front of the top level domain, or something behind it:
https://subdomain.cbfsim.co.uk/ or https://cbfsim.co.uk/subdomain/
In both cases, the address ends with a slash, indicating that the browser should look for the default page in that folder, which is named index. If you're linking to a particular page, the address ends with that page and as with any filename, it has a name and an extension. For pages on the internet, it's going to be a htm, html, php or asp extension (there may be more, but I cannot think of them right now).