Hi All,
Could some folks from an active group, e.g., pharr-d, please see if GTSS is now working? For several weeks now it has been failing with a “403 Forbidden” error.
It might be best if you first emptied your browser’s cache, sometimes known as “deleting temporary internet files.”
Please let me know outcome. Thanks.
Cordially,
Paul
It works again for me.
[quote=“Paul”]Hi All,
Could some folks from an active group, e.g., pharr-d, please see if GTSS is now working? For several weeks now it has been failing with a “403 Forbidden” error.
Paul:
Well done! It works for me too.
Did you find out what the problem was?
Great to be in action again.
Maria Brandl
Pharr-d
Thank you Bert and Maria. I am most grateful for your efforts.
In fact, neither I nor my ISP knows what caused this. But I do know that my code hasn’t changed in many months. Hence something must have changed at the ISP.
I am sorry to all GTSSers about this hiatus. Let’s hope this is last of such difficulties.
Cordially,
Paul
Hello, Paul!
Is there is something wrong with the login page of GTSS, I can’t find it?
Yikes! It appears to have been infiltrated by evil spammers. Paul…
Yeah? It seems OK to me.
What?? Here’s what I get:
P.S., Adelheid, I love your new avatar. was the water really that blue in Greece? It looks great. The Cunliffe is a nice touch.
I have no problems when I go directly to http://www.greekgeek.org/groups/login.htm
Ohh, and yes that water was all that blue 
By the way, I couldn’t do without Cunliffe… I drag it along with me just about anywhere…
I have got the same page. 
P. S. The avatar is really great. I did not know that it is Greece. Is this picture a real photo?
That is the what I use but I get the same result as Alex and Ed. Maybe it is GreekGeeks new look. A picture of Paul’s wife or daughter beside the menu.
I’m not confident that that’s it and I am afraid to try the menu.
That’s really weird: I see nothing out of the ordinary, can just go to GTSS and post lessons there. Also going to greekgeek.org gives me the page I always get.
This must be a nameserver issue.
Stranger thing still: I asked my husband to go to greekgeek.org on his own machine and sure enough, the page Ed posted appeared.
I emptied the cache of my browser and tried again myself, but I get the correct page every single time.
The only way I can get the “Welcome to greekgee.org” page is when I use the IP address of the site.
This is strange.
OK, here’s the deal: the current IP-address connected to greekgeek.org obviously isn’t Paul’s site:
PING greekgeek.org (8.15.231.100)
Paul’s site is still available to me, because I happen to have an entry for greekgeek.org in my /etc/hosts file (don’t remember why I put it there):
72.29.74.163 www.greekgeek.org
Putting that in your own hosts file will make the site available to you again.
Works for me! Thanks.
So, the good news is that we have gtss again, but the bad news is that it looks like Paul won’t be an inside source for us to get discounts on Greek Island Cruises.
Adelheid, are you a linux user? I think Windows users can do the same thing in C:/windows(or winnt or whatever)/system32/drivers/etc/hosts, but I can’t test that until tomorrow.
Yes, that will work for Windows users.
p.s. Your avatar is also pretty cool! You have some automated rotation going on?
I just have my avatar “image” link really go to a small php script which picks an image at random. It saves me the trouble of having to make a decision.
It works fine for me.
Hi All,
Quelle drag. I became aware of this issue two days ago. On one computer the “blond girl” page showed up; on another my website showed up. Today I get blond girl on both machines. Sounds like it was just a matter of nameserver percolation.
So now what? whois shows me still the owner of the site. But I am not sure how best to proceed. I will look into it further. I am open to suggestions.
Thank you all, again, for your patience. And thinks for the spelunking which led to the workaround.
Cordially,
Paul
I think the organisation who handed you your domain name should take action here: whois shows your hold on the domain name is not expired yet, so they should have to fix this for you.