Author Topic: Cannot access the Welcome and General Discussion forum sub-section  (Read 2666 times)

Eric

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This is strange.  I can access every single sub-section of the forum except the Welcome and General Discussion sub-section.  For example, when accessing Ask A Mustachian or Investor Alley, I get a web address like "http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ask-a-mustachian/" or "http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/".  However, if I click on the Welcome and General Discussion from the main forum page ("http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/"), I get "http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/" and it takes me to a blank non-forum page and the page title states "Page not found" although I can see the new brown background website banner.  If I manually change it to match the format of the other forum sub-sections to "http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/" it re-directs me to the same page.

I can see that others can access it, as when I'm on the main forum page "http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/", the Last Post on the right side keeps changing.  I can click on that last post, and I have access to read it and the whole thread.  However, I have no way to see all of the topics in Welcome and General Discussion.

Also not working properly, when I'm in any forum sub-section, the only way to get back to the main forum page is through a two step process instead of a one step process.  At the top of any thread is the hyperlinked "The Money Mustache Community >> The Only Category >> [forum name]" and I used to be able to click on either The Money Mustache Community or The Only Category and have it take me to the main forum page.  Now it takes me to the same "http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/" page as above, where I then have to click on the "Forum" option to get back to the main page.

I'm using Firefox v 28.0 and v 29.0 (I upgraded my version to see if that would fix it, but it happened in both) and both of the above happened when logged in and also as a Guest.

As an experiment, I opened IE 11 and I did have access the Welcome and General Discussion sub-forum and clicking on "The Only Category" took me to the forum main page, as should be expected.  I tried both as a guest and when logged in, and it worked successfully either way.  The web address of "http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/" is the exact same one that is taking me to the "Page Not Found" (by re-directing me to "http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/") when using Firefox.

Any ideas?  I don't really want to start using IE.  I also don't really want to clear my cookies from Firefox, but I will if that's the only way to fix it.  Can anyone else test this using Firefox?

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Re: Cannot access the Welcome and General Discussion forum sub-section
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2014, 04:31:53 PM »
Not your imagination. I get the same issue except it's the Page Not Found only for my favoritest sub-forum:
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/antimustachian-wall-of-shame-and-comedy/

The Welcome and General Discussion works fine for me..?
FireFox 28.0 & 29.0

Seems to work fine for all sub-forums on Chrome 34.0.1847.131 m

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Re: Cannot access the Welcome and General Discussion forum sub-section
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2014, 04:21:26 PM »
I cleared out all of my cookies and internet history and now it works fine.  Such a strange hiccup, especially because the same web address was failing in Firefox but working in IE. 

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Re: Cannot access the Welcome and General Discussion forum sub-section
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2014, 06:09:58 PM »
Weird caching issue, sounds like.
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