"Connection refused" on my own web page

[acampbell]

I had to bring an Acer desktop out of retirement a few days ago following a problem on my Dell which stopped booting (much discussion of this on misc@).

Anyway, I migrated the Acer through several releases and am now back on -current. Everything seems to work except that I can't access my own web page at www.acampbell.uk/wp. I've tried with firefox, chromium, otter-browser, links, w3m and lynx. All the other pages at my website are OK.

It isn't a problem with the web page because it is easily reached from my laptop and my wife's computer (Mac). I can only imagine that something is cached which is preventing access but it can't be a browser cache since it happens with every browser I try.

[johnR]

The link you posted to your site is http, but the web page appears to default to https. Could it be an outdated TLS version?

[jggimi]

WhatWeb shows a 403:Forbidden with that URL, and it recognizes that it reached an Apache webserver. I started a WhatWeb "heavy aggression" run but stopped it after a couple of minutes without obtaining additional info.

Lots of guesses are possible, if "wp" happens to be a Wordpress structure.

Edited to add: now I'm getting timeouts, so my client might now be on Anthony's blacklist.

[acampbell]

Thanks to both for replies.

JohnR: Yes, my site does produce https although Chrome still complains that it isn't secure.

iggim: I didn't know about WhatWeb; I just installed it. I don't know if the name "wp" would be a problem - it hasn't been up to now, for about a year.

I'll ring my ISP in the morning to see if they can shed any light on it.

[jggimi]

Do YOU manage this system and it's Apache server? If so, maybe you should share some information about the server and how you've provisioned it.

You know. So that someone here could actually recommend a corrective action.

[acampbell]

The Apache server is on my ISP's site. I rang them this moning and they say the page is working normally - they can connect to the page without difficulty.
So it has to be a problem on this computer - presumably somethng which occurred during the update from 6,3 or the restore from backup.

I'll go on trying to trace it. As a last resort I could reinstall but it doesn't seem worth it just for this.

[jggimi]

The website's certificate is currently valid, the encryption used is the modern TLS 1.3.

[frcc]

No problem connecting from US, TX
to "https://acampbell.uk/wp/"

[ripe]

Same for me from France, Occitanie.

[CiotBSD]

Me too (I live in France, Lot-et-Garonne):

[bsdun]

This issue may be a result of incorrect pf configuration. Make sure that pf.conf starts with

skip on lo

[LeFrettchen]

I also can connect to your website, but if I ping www.acampbell.uk, I systematically have 25% packets lost, request timed out.

[acampbell]

Originally Posted by bsdun

This issue may be a result of incorrect pf configuration. Make sure that pf.conf starts with

skip on lo

Thanks - I do have this line but still it doesn't work. I think I'm going to take the radical solution and reinstall. (I just boot ed with a linx live CD and could connect without problems that way.)

[acampbell]

Originally Posted by bsdun

This issue may be a result of incorrect pf configuration. Make sure that pf.conf starts with

skip on lo

Thanks - I do have this line but still it doesn't work. I think I'm going to take the radical solution and reinstall. (I just booted with a linx live CD and could connect without problems that way.)

LeFrettchen: There are ongoing faults at my ISP (Zen) which seem to be screwing up access to my pages.

[acampbell]

Many thanks to all who replied. I finally got aroujnd to reinstalling the system. In the process I found that the /home partition was corrupt: "bad magic in superblock". fsck didn't fix it so I deleted and replaced the partition, after which the web page access problem disappeared.