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Dunravin

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Registered: 2020-08-16

Posts: 4

Wiki search bar issue

Hi, experiencing problems using the search bar on the wiki. I can for example search for "pro" which expands to Professional Audio but clicking that link or any others in the list does not resolve to open the page.

It's the same from my mobile phone, both on brave browser. Sometimes I get bad gateway 502. Once I got a verify you're human screen featuring an anime girl but it failed to complete, I've had this same verification implementation on other sites occasionally, once today for something unrelated and it completed and opened the desired web page within a second or two.

I have deleted the cookie and considering clearing my cache but I really don't suspect my broswer. Just tried with chrome browser on my mobile and the anime nurse is making sure I'm not a bot but she's having difficulty calculating speed or something and the page is hung there.

Is this site being DDoS or are counter measures mentioned on the home page not working correctly?

The page I want is available, I can get to it on desktop and mobile via my history or external search engines. Same with all the other wiki pages, but navigating to them via the search bar is completely broken.

Just thought I'd post about it anyway. Thanks

Erus_Iluvatar

Wiki Admin

Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 134

Re: Wiki search bar issue

Yes, we're aware of the issue, we're being crawled extensively and for some reason Anubis doesn't seem to help

Every non-cached page (including the search page) is inaccessible with various HTTP codes (502, 504).

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mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 1,565

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Re: Wiki search bar issue

Right now the Wiki experiences some issues. Consider using an external search engine for now, with site-limiting operators. For example in DuckDuckGo:

site:wiki.archlinux.org search terms

Since caches work flawlessly for now, you should be able to access the actual content with no issues.

If you can’t, we just noticed (kudos to Antiz) that logged-in users do not get cached pages. So you may consider logging out or using browser’s incognito mode. There is also an offline copy: package arch-wiki-docs.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Wiki search bar issue

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site … hlinux.org

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Dunravin

Member

Registered: 2020-08-16

Posts: 4

Re: Wiki search bar issue

Thanks all.

Seems better this evening and Anubis check was done in a flash.