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I have just been scrolling through a couple of the HMS Vic build diaries and at first everything seems OK.
Then for no reason that I am aware of, I clicked to move forward to the next page and a message suddenly pops up.
"Server Error 404: The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had it's name changed or is temporarily unavailable"
I looked up what this error means and a copy is below
""What does 404 server error mean?
404 is a status code that tells a web user that a requested page is not available. 404 and other response status codes are part of the web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol response codes. The 404 code means that a server could not find a client-requested webpage.""
This happened last week and again today.
Anybody else seen this before?
Chris
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Hi Chris, I had a similar issue a while ago. Keep a check on what page you are on and if it happens again, reload the diary and select the page when it went wrong and it should be OK, but it might happen a few pages further on and you`ll have to do the same again. It`s a pain, but it does get over the issue. Creaky platform groaning.  Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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That's the standard 'Page not found error'.
You can get that if the Internet burps, anywhere in the chain.
Refresh normally works unless the page really has gone.
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Thanks for the response guys.
I will try the "Refresh" method next time I'm in there to see what happens.
Chris
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z8000783 attached the following image(s):
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Sums it up nicely, John. 
Chris
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I think you mean yzongs's build. I am picking up all pages OK.
Try clearing the cache in your browser or try another browser.
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z8000783 wrote:
I think you mean yzongs's build. I am picking up all pages OK.
Try clearing the cache in your browser or try another browser.
My apologies to all. I did not intend to show disrespect or spell his name incorrectly.
I will try doing some housework on my pc and see what happens.
Thanks John.
Chris
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On advice I cleared the cache on my pc and unfortunately it made no difference although the pc seems to be running a tad quicker..
Just ran a small test and used Google Chrome to look at the build diaries and all is well.
Safari has decided not to cooperate any more!! Oh well, just another first world problem.
Chris
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Hi Chris, I don't think this is a problem with Safari. I use Edge and am finding the same problem with diaries that have over 9 pages and it happens on all large diaries I've looked at. The forum will allow me to use the forward arrow 9 times before the dreaded 404 error appears. To get around the problem I simply reload the diary and type in the page number, (ie 10), go to that page number and click forward to look at the next 9 pages. I admit its a bit of a faff but it gets me round the issue. Some browsers may work better than others, such as Google Chrome but even Chrome will throw up odd issues from time to time. This old, old forum operating on modern operating systems will throw up these kinds of problems but hopefully will all disappear when the forum is modernised...  Regards Alan
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Hi Alan,
Thank you for your explanation.
I shall try the "nine pages then regen" method.
Chris
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I have been doing a little more investigation . . .
The problem seems to occur on dairies using Microsoft Edge, Opera & Chrome. Clearing cache helps but the problem reappears.
The only one that seems to work consistently well is Firefox.
Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has its own problems, and occasionally I need to use Edge instead, but usually it is very forgiving when pages are programmed badly
TO ADMIN
I doubt this will help since my understanding is that you have no technical support for the forum any more, but the problem seems to occur when a ludicrously long URL is created. When it consists of the user identifier and page number only, like this:
forum.deagostini.co.uk/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1911&p=2
. . . everything is fine and scrolling through is OK, but sometimes a huge URL is created and 404 occurs around page 17/18.
I have no idea why this used to work fine back in 2015, so this could be a red herring.
They seem to be using Google Analytics for the forum which possibly creates these long URLs.
Maybe DeAg could be persuaded to turn them of for a while and see if it corrects the problem.
As usual, I am sure this will all be OK when the new forum comes along later this summer, I believe.
As I have mentioned before, to see members experiencing an issue such as this, together with the images' problem, is an absolute disgrace with no apparent support available to sort them out.
Off the shelf forums are ridiculously cheap now and can be implemented in a matter of weeks including porting data from old systems such as this and could have been implemented 10 years ago when the issue with images first appeared.
/Rant over.
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Hi John, For your info, I tried going through your diary yesterday on google and edge with the same issues occurring on both at pages 10 and 19. Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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Yes, you are correct Derek, thanks.
I have just seen exactly the same. Previous post corrected.
Replace the URL with the short form, and it's OK. Still OK on Firefox.
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z8000783 wrote:
Yes, you are correct Derek, thanks.
I have just seen exactly the same. Previous post corrected.
Replace the URL with the short form, and it's OK. Still OK on Firefox.
Sorry John, but I`ve just had the same result on "Firefox"  Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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delboy271155 wrote:z8000783 wrote:
Yes, you are correct Derek, thanks.
I have just seen exactly the same. Previous post corrected.
Replace the URL with the short form, and it's OK. Still OK on Firefox.
Sorry John, but I`ve just had the same result on "Firefox" Regards delboy271155 (Derek)
Have you tried clearing cache and possibly cookies . . .
restarting the system. . .
. . . and reinstalling Windows 95?
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