The website is redirected to sting.dragonflybsd.org

[Curculigo]

The DNS problem described in https://github.com/Ravenports/www_ravenports/issues/4 again.

[jrmarino]

Can you clarify exactly what the problem is?
www.ravenports.com is hosted on sting, but the host name is maintained.
I don't know exactly what you are stating the issue is.

[Curculigo]

What I see is the same as what the OP in https://github.com/Ravenports/www_ravenports/issues/4 see. Read that thread again.

[jrmarino]

Ok, forget it.
I didn't understand that post either.
I'm moving on.

[kraileth]

Let me try again: People are seeing the sting page increasingly often. This is because various browsers are starting to prefer HTTPS over plain HTTP either by default or because people change the configuration (same for me, I have to comply to policies at work). The RP project site, www.ravenports.com, is available via HTTP only. However the webserver on sting seems to be configured to also answer on default TLS port 443. So when it receives a request for which it has no perfectly matching Server Block, it may pick the default one (sting?) and simply server that content even though that's not what people want to see.

I. e. this is a problem that would go away if www.ravenports.com was available over HTTPS (either using LE or maybe indeed considering GH Pages?). If sting wasn't available via HTTPS at all, this would also not happen.

[Curculigo]

http://www.ravenports.com/catalog/ is also 404 Not Found.

[jrmarino]

http://www.ravenports.com/catalog/ is also 404 Not Found.

which is false.
If your browser is ignoring the protocol (http://), the problem lies with the browser, no? Is it configurable to not automatically replace http:// with https:// ?

hopefully moot soon, but the website is properly configured right now.

[jrmarino]

so it's just a duplicate of the issue to install a certificate to support HTTPS then.

[jrmarino]

I bought a 5-year SSL cert yesterday but the validation is still pending.

[jrmarino]

Okay, ravenports has a secure connection now.
Both http and https are supported (http does not redirect to https unless "ravenports.com" is used without the www subdomain.

[kraileth]

Let's re-open this. It seems that HTTPS was only one piece of the puzzle. Today I talked to a colleague who failed to do the bootstrap using the ravenports-downloader.sh script. Wget and curl would complain about the certificate being invalid and trying to do it via plain HTTP would result in a 404!

Took me a moment to realize what's happening there: The machine prefers IPv6 over v4! When curl is forced to use v4, it works (of course using the script fails then). There's probably either a v6-related configuration problem with the Web server or a DNS problem.

[jrmarino]

separate issue please.
I would imagine anyone with IPv6 over IPv4 would see problems like this all the time.

[jrmarino]

I see this via my hotspot but not on vpn.

url: https://www.ravenports.com/catalog/bucket_E1/php83-curl/std/

will try another browser

[jrmarino]

hmm, can't reproduce with ms edge or incognito mode.
phone hotspot defaults to ipv6?

[jrmarino]

I made a configuration change to sting nginx. is there a way to test it?

[jrmarino]

seems to work on my hotspot now