On 12/6/25 21:12, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 09:28:35AM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On 2025-Dec-05, Noah Misch wrote:
>>> Based on visiting https://www.postgresql.org/account/profile/, this Chrome
>>> profile is logged into my community account. However, if I visit
>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_18_Open_Items and click "log in"
>>> or "view source" I get:
>>>
>>> Error 403 Resource available only to logged in users
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The wiki had been "under attack" (read: unnaturally heavy scraping
>> traffic) for a few days and had consequently started spewing errors of
>> various kinds. To defend against this, some URLs had to be blocked,
>> which is why you now get error 403 in various places. You should be
>> able to log in to the wiki from its main page, and then all restrictions
>> are lifted.
>>
>> It's not clear to me exactly why does the login link work on the main
>> page and not on other pages. We may be able to lift this at some point.
>> But for now, there's at least a workaround.
>
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 11:02:51AM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> I made an attempt to improve this - please try again!
>
> I get the same error outcome from the main-page login link, which for me is
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page
>
> Visiting https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin is an effective
> workaround for me.
yeah I think this was me simply not deploying all of the config changes
- sorry for that....
Should work now...
Stefan
>
