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All ASP pages broken

Or did my host shut me down?

         

Birdman

12:06 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hello everyone. This is very disturbing. Yesterday, I got an email from a webmaster that I contacted about a link swap. He told me that he was unable to submit his info on my add url page.

So this morning I tested it and it doesn't work. So then I check out my other pages that use ASP, and they are completely blank. When I check the source, I see this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Now that is not the same meta tag I have in my file. I also have other meta tags and there is plenty of HTML on the page that is not in between the asp tags. No title shows either. Very strange!

Has anyone seen this type of thing happen. I'm wondering if my host has set up redirects on all of my asp pages. These pages are indexed in Google and have worked fine for many months.

Can anybody advise me or give me thier opinion on this? Thanks!

Birdman

1:27 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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A little more info:

Every page with the extension .asp is blank with the same source code shown above.

All but one of these pages are form to mail but they all check for referrers and it must be mydomain.com.

Sinner_G

1:36 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Do you have FTP access or something like that? You should be able to see if your pages are still there or not.

Birdman

1:56 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the reply Sinner_G.

I do have ftp access and the pages are still there, intact. That is why I believe they put up a redirect on all my asp pages.

I even created a new page to test and get the same thing.:(

Sinner_G

2:14 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Does your ASP host other sites using ASP? If so, check out whether their pages still work. To me it looks like the server doesn't 'understand' the ASP extension any more.

Best thing to do is probably to ring them up and ask what's happening.

Grumpus

2:17 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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If you're not on an NT server, your host needs to have it configured to "emulate asp" through software. If they upgraded or made other changes, they possibly screwed up the configuration for your site (or several/all sites). Check with them and see what they did.

G.

Birdman

2:23 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Does your ASP host other sites using ASP?

I'm not sure about that. How would I find that info?

If you're not on an NT server

It is an NT server. They moved to another server a few months back, but everything seemed to go well with the move.
Maybe you're right, Grumpus(accidental misconfiguration).

Thanks for the replies. I'll post back when I find out what's going on.

[edited by: tedster at 2:47 pm (utc) on Nov. 11, 2002]
[edit reason] correct style error [/edit]

Sinner_G

2:40 pm on Nov 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Am I the only one getting a strange layout here?

Anyway, to find out which other sites are located on the same server, this is what I do (if I'm doing something stupid, someone please correct me). First ping your site URL (www.yoursite.com). This should give you the IP adress of the server. Then you go to an IP investigator site (like this [domainwhitepages.com] one. There you get all list of all websites on that server.

Birdman

4:47 pm on Nov 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Just wanted to update this thread. It was a server error. I guess I'm very paranoid;)