Site Redirection - Matthewfish [Solved]

[Ozydius]

This is just, bizarre. I dunno what happened. But everytime I try to go to my site http://Ozydius.comicgenesis.com it sends me to http://Matthewfish.comicgenesis.com. Even the rss and other pages I had on my site.

[Necrospawn0]

Im having the same problem (http://majestic7.comicgenesis.com/), i just posted on another thread(http://forums.comicgenesis.com/viewtopi ... =1&t=86603), and it appears that http://gathion.comicgenesis.com/ and http://ameliasamulet.comicgenesis.com/ are having the same problem, all three of us are new if that makes any difference

[Twas_Mimzy]

Same thing is happening to me... Did anyone else use the Comic Genesis Template Generator? Since this issue is beyond just me, I wonder if the security of the generator has become compromised.

Le sigh. I was working on my own site layout, but it looks like I'll have to step up my HTML writing. Hopefully I can get this fixed tomorrow.

[Dr Neo Lao]

If anyone thinks that their code may have been compromised, use FTP to download the template(s), and upload the default templates in the meantime (you can get the default templates from the CGWiki).

Have a look over your code and see if you can spot any vulnerabilities. If you are not sure, send a copy to me and I'll look them over: twaip_comic@hotREMOVEmail.com

[FavouriteKitten]

It's happening to me too. X_X Sheesh, last night I was just wondering what else could possibly go wrong, and I think I jinxed myself. I'm not complaining about the site btw, I think it's just having a run of extraordinarily bad luck!

Anyway, some extra info for those trying to figure out the problem:

I have two comics. My older comic is not having this problem, but my newer one redirects to that matthewfish site.

I didn't use a template generator. I wrote my own html, using the basic template it came with as a starting point, so I wouldn't forget all that "bunch of stuff" that comes up there at the top. I don't know what that "bunch of stuff" is up there or what it does, so if a problem was there, I wouldn't have a notion.

My site was working fine yesterday. I last checked it at 22:00 GMT. In fact I was happy because I'd finally gotten my full update to work with all my pretty html changes and I could finally see all my comic pages and all the changes I'd made.

I didn't make any changes to my site after that and I didn't run any updates. I know this, because I went to bed. But, I'm not sure what time that particular comic is set to automatically update, but I'm pretty sure it's afternoon/evening my time and not the middle of the night. But I know I sure didn't change my html between then and now.

Only the main page of my comic seems to exist and redirect to that site. Pages that WERE there last night, and are in my browser history, when I try to go back to them I get a "404, Not Found". These comics exist in the appropriate folder of my "public_html" folder, though.

If anyone does go through the html from their site and finds what the problem is, can you point me in the direction of where you're looking? Pretty please? Because I'm, quite honestly, baffled.

[Aldran]

Guess it was too soon to celebrate, eh? Well, as someone already mentioned, my site got hit by this too...I guess when the comics did their regular update. Seems to be the case with at least one other.

I haven't touched anything outside the body of the source code on indextemplate. I don't have access to my files at the moment, but I'll check the code when I get home.

If this helps any:

1) I attempted to update the page earlier in the day after uploading revised pages. These changes were never reflected on the site prior to it suddenly redirecting to matthewfish.comicgenesis.com

2) I added a hit counter to my main page, but not to the dailytemplate, which is also redirecting (FavouriteKitten, maybe this is why you're getting 404 errors? I get them too because of the redirect). This was part of the aforementioned revisions and was never reflected in any previous attempts to update.

3) When I request an update, it takes a LOT longer than usual to move through the queue, including the one where my site subsequently started redirecting.
I've seen other queued requests come and go while mine is still in there, no matter what kind of request it is (full, index or regular). EDIT: I put in an index update request about half an hour ago, and it's still in queue.

[Twas_Mimzy]

Update: I looked at all of my permissions and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Nor did I notice anything out of place in my indextemplate or dailytemplate files. That said, I've moved from 'maybe I'll be able to fix this' into 'completely stumped.' I don't know enough about web design to figure out what's wrong so I'm hoping someone smarter with more experience can figure it out for me!

[Aldran]

Apparently there is a webcomic called Rolling Glen by Matthew Fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYixihCt ... annel_page Why his CG site's blank and redirects several new webcomics to it is beyond me, though.

Was he in the same group as all the other folks that were held up for two months? Did he join recently and perhaps spark a glitch? I wonder if his site's creation, attempt to update, etc. may have accidentally triggered several others to screw up. Just a thought in the meantime.

[Necrospawn0]

i remember my rss feed was redirecting to his prior to my comic going up...

i wont be able to check my code for at least 7 hours, since in stuck at work or class until then... but currently, I'm just using the basic template with a few small modifications.

3) When I request an update, it takes a LOT longer than usual to move through the queue, including the one where my site subsequently started redirecting.
I've seen other queued requests come and go while mine is still in there, no matter what kind of request it is (full, index or regular). EDIT: I put in an index update request about half an hour ago, and it's still in queue.

ive had the same problem, like i'll request a regular update between like 6 and 8, and it will go almost automatically, but when i request an index update sometime after that on the same day it takes forever, even if the queue is empty

[Ickole14]

I also have this same problem. I did update the templates but nothing outside of the body. Just when I thought all was going well....

[Twas_Mimzy]

The fish himself posted in the other thread!

Hi, I have absolutely no idea what is going on with this. I created an account to put up a completed comic that I created, then I started recieving hundreds of emails with peoples password change request forms with their user name and actual passwords and activation codes, have emailed a few of the contact us emails on the main page only to have them all returned after a few days because of 'server' issues? I've been deleting all the info that I recieve, it just has gotten rather annoying. Sorry about the problems with redirecting to my page I have no idea why that is happening, or why I am getting support emails.

The only proper response is this:

Forgive me if I laugh hysterically but....

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

For WEEKS no one could get their password activation e-mails. They simply weren't arriving! To find out that they had all been sent to you for some indeterminable reason is simply hilarious.

The only explanation is that you are the God of Comic Genesis and the website wishes to prove this by sending all it's e-mails and websites to you. You should be HONORED.

Now somebody fix it! Pretty please!

[Aldran]

Wow...so all the problems the last couple months can be tied into Mr. Fish's account? HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Obviously it's not his fault, but I'm curious what happened that caused his account to get all our confirmation e-mails and now redirect our sites to his.

[MagooChris]

I was reporting this issue as soon as my site got approved (but no password), see my thread about the RSS misdirection... so it was doing it well before I had access to changing the HTML on the page. The RSS still points to mr fish's comic instead of amelia's amulet...

[EricMarrs]

Oh, well, at least it's not just me. For a second I thought I'd been deleted since I was one of the ones stuck in the backup and was having trouble with the FTP program updating me (side note--did anyone else have problems with their comics not showing up? The date at the top of the page changed for when I had comics set to auto-update, but nothing showed up) and was afraid I'd been deleted.

By the way, I'm gunsnbutter.comicgenesis.com
And it happened to my friend at numbnutsinc.comicgenesis.com

[Dr Neo Lao]

*sigh*

Looks like for some unknown reason almost all new accounts have been re-directed to Mathew's comic. This is an internal server problem. My comic is doing the same thing. It is only new accounts that are doing it, older accounts are unaffected.

[MaruKazeryu]

I've got the same problem guys :/ anyone figure out how to fix it yet?

http://marukazeryu.comicgenesis.com

[Dr Neo Lao]

None of the members can fix this at their level.

I have notified STrRedWolf and Kisai, not sure when they will be back on-line. Since it is coming up on late afternoon/early evening in the US at the moment, I assume that they should be getting home from work in the next few hours and hopefully one of them will spot this and get on it.

This is high priority, no current estimate on time to fix.

[Kisai]

Okay, I need something traced here.

What did all of you guys do in common? and on what day?

FTP is not affected, and the reason sites are redirecting has something to do with the wrong data being written to .htaccess

The date would be somewhere between Dec 3 2008 and Feb 1 2009 of whatever was in common if it was when you signed up. It might not be that date, but there is another pattern to a userid of 'altf4' that also has the same pattern in the database.

What day did you request a new password or activate after the initial email?

[Dr Neo Lao]

In addition to my PM (and for the benefit of people posting):

Most people have been attempting to change their FTP passwords (repeatedly) between December and March 2nd. On the 2nd, STrRedWolf fixed the FTP password problem. prior to that, the known symptom was that people would go the Lost password thingy which would do everything it was supposed to and give the message "email sent". However, members never got those emails.

It would appear now that the emails were successfully being sent, just all of them were being sent to Matthew Fish instead. At the time it was thought that the emails were not being sent at all (that was what I was insisting, while STrRedWolf was saying "yes, they are being sent". (Turns out we were both kinda right... oops).

The site redirection is only recent. Interestingly, there was a longer problem with the rss feed showing the wrong comic. The first sighting of Matthew Fish was on the 13th of Feb, in the rss feed of MagooChris' fiancee's comic. This was after activation but before an FTP password had been received (though several attempts had been made).

It wasn't until the 5th of march that sites suddenly started getting re-directed.

There is more information of who did what when in this thread.

If people can provide the information that Kisai requested, then it'd help to find the cause of this.

[Imatron]

Can we at leat get Mathewfish to fix the glitched microsoft incompatable template and update his comic so we have something to look at in the mean time XP

Poor guys probably getting some angry looks, I hope the publicity pays off for his comic at least to make up for it.