I have read a few answers to try and find a solution to a ridiculous problem.
I dont have access to a server that I can log on to access phpmyadmin,
What is supposed to happen is that the web url is supposed to be viewed via https, and in most cases this happens.
Except for a particular PC I have at home and it never seems to open in https. Why this is happening on this given machine is completely unknown.
Is there a way I can set up a rule on my local machine that will ALWAYS convert http://pathtomysite.com to https://pathtomysecuresite.com, (possibly via the 'hosts' entry (and yes it is a windows machine running win10).
I could do this on the web server itself, I know how to do this, but the problem is, I don't have, nor am I allowed to have, access to the database server to update the .htaccess or webconfig.xml on the server. (I am 99% sure its Apache, not nginx or IIS).
Any help is allows gratefully received.
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This is for a woocommerce site. I pulled the DB and the files locally onto my machine. I do have an SSL but I dont think that is the issue. When I run it locally I get the index page, which is under construction. The minute I try to login to the back admin part of wocommerce it immediately goes to the live URL online. How do I prevent this. I tried renaming the .htaccess thinking it was a redirect but it made no difference. If I shut the internet connection down, it still tries to reach out to the URL but says no internet connection available. Thanks.
Problem: when I visit particular url the site goes white and the title of the tab says "403 Forbidden" and nothing else happens.
I wanted to ask the forumees here about this weird problem when I, and I solely, cannot access one particular website, until I've run right into very same problem with yet another site just now.
Apparently the problem lies with my computer, and my computer only.
The site IS accessible by everyone except of me.
I cleaned the cache, removed all sh!t files, restarted the modem and the computer couple of times already, to no avail.
I can access those sites via my phone, I can access them from anywhere else but! my computer.
Has anyone stumbled upon such a problem?
There could be a variety of reasons behind this. Your browser, a browser extension, IP address shitlisted for some reason (usually spamming), some sort of virus that gets detected by remote antiviruses and block your connections, some adware or spyware that rewrites your requests...
It's also possible that if you only have problems with those two websites and especially if you did something you were not supposed to, maybe they just blocked you out.
So try using a proxy server or a VPN like strongvpn. If it works then at least you know it's got something to do with your IP address.
Recently, I made a setup where I pointed some websites to a redirect server. The redirect server in return served the website requests using ProxyPass directive of Apache2. It worked like a charm without even a single problem for my websites.
So, based on that I have got an idea to access internet via Apache2. Please note that this is because I do not have access to fast internet and every internet provider is so lousy and lame here to provide better connection speeds even for the lot of money I pay to them.
Now, https as better speends than VPN.
So, the idea is to get rid of VPN and SSH tunnel redirects and instead, resolve every domain on my Mac to a single server IP address which should be a redirect server and which can in turn bring me back every web request made from my Mac. Possible? This will make me to always use https to my own redirect server. https has better speed than VPN for me whenever I try and when I am on VPN things are too slow for me, may be because of level of encryption. Please note that I do not want solution using PPTP, L2TP and anything else which are lighter than OpenVPN (using Pritunl).
Please let me know if anything like that is possible and if yes then how.
Even though if it does not work, my mind always gets this idea every time. I just want someone to shed light on this and shut down my idea if its the worst by far. Thanks in advance.
Also, I have also seen some proxy sites where I put any website link on their website and their website works like a browser as if I am surfing on their remote server itself. May be something like that can be useful and speedy for me. But, I do not want to use them because I do not trust those sites for security. No way.
Got a solution myself without any kind of VPN.
Actually I needed to make my DNS secure and connections to my server Apps secure. So, for that I tried DNSCrypt-Proxy and its working great and resolving my DNS queries on HTTPS (443).
And, I am using an Addon on Chrome for "Always https" connections. I am blocking every request on http for Chrome using that Addon. Perfect!!!
So, now all surfing traffic on my Mac is going on HTTPS and is perfectly safe from hackers. I do not care for any other connections made by my other Mac Apps. I just care for security of my Apps while I am surfing them OR any payments I am making for shopping.
DNSCrypt-Proxy:
Please go to https://dnscrypt.org/#dnscrypt-osx and you will find all help there to how to install and run it on your Mac.
brew install dnscrypt-proxy --with-plugins
sudo dnscrypt-proxy --ephemeral-keys --resolver-name=cisco
^ You can find the resolver name in excel sheet that comes with this package.
And, just add an entry in your Network interfaces for DNS to point to 127.0.0.1, Please note that remove all other entries.
"Always HTTPS for Chrome":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/gcbommkclmclpchllfjekcdonpmejbdp?hl=en
Enjoy perfect security on your Mac, if you do not care about IP address anonymity. Always use legal stuff!!!
the linux-guy here has a question about IIS v6.
The case is, that i have a site running, when i do some specific tasks on this site ( Like deleting a specific item, three times in a row) the site will break, and a completely blank page will appear. Checking the response headers, i noticed that the server sends a "403 Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected."
Through a proxy, i can connect just fine.
Checking the site-options in the IIS manager, shows me that my IP is not blocked globally, its something thats just happening.
Where can i check for this? It happens automatically and the block ends after about 8-12 minutes, every time?
best regards.
Jonas
do you have access to IIS?
i assume blocking occure on web site side (inside ASP code), not in IIS.
please check IIS console, and make sure that there are no blocked IP's. If it's true, you should find database/table or some config file, where stored all blocked IP's. After that, you should get able to find ASP code, which is responsable for blocking....
you also could try make quick search inside all ASP pages for text like: "REMOTE_ADDR" and ".ServerVariables"
I have been working with IIS 7 for a while and it has worked fine until it just suddenly started throwing 404 errors for my multiple websites even though they actually exist. All of the configurations seems fine (path, default document) but not a single file, no matter the format or location will be loaded.
Another strange thing is that everything works when I try to access the websites via localhost or 127.0.0.1 but not through my external IP.
Does anyone know why this could happen and how I can fix it?
Edit:
It appears this 404 page is not the built in IIS error page. It is associated with nginx but I'm not sure where the file is located on my server or why my pages are being intercepted.
It turns at the server was hijacked by Morfeus F***ing Scanner, which I was not aware was even a thing until this happened. It's activity showed up in the server access logs. I basically had to reset the entire server. It was quite a chore.