Bug #10457 forum.mysql.com is alias for bugs.mysql.com
Submitted: 9 May 2005 6:42 Modified: 5 Jan 2006 7:36
Reporter: Marko Mäkelä Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Websites: forums.mysql.com Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[9 May 2005 6:42] Marko Mäkelä 
Description:
I tried to access the MySQL forums and typed the URL from my memory as http://forum.mysql.com. That led to the bug reporting system rather than the forums.

How to repeat:
lynx http://forum.mysql.com
The interface to the bugs database will be shown instead of the forums.

Suggested fix:
Correct the virtual server configuration. Both forum.mysql.com and forums.mysql.com seem to be aliases for foruma.mysql.com, so it's not a DNS problem.
[9 May 2005 7:19] Jim Winstead 
Your DNS cache is out of date.

$ host forum.mysql.com
forum.mysql.com         CNAME   foruma.mysql.com
foruma.mysql.com        A       213.136.52.76
# jimw@vali: ~/
$ host forums.mysql.com
forums.mysql.com        CNAME   foruma.mysql.com
foruma.mysql.com        A       213.136.52.76
# jimw@vali: ~/
$ host bugs.mysql.com
bugs.mysql.com          A       213.136.52.42
[13 May 2005 10:52] Marko Mäkelä 
Jim,

it's not the DNS cache. Both forum and forums pointed to foruma.mysql.com also last time I checked.

The problem is in the web server configuration (virtual hosts, I guess). I'm replying to this report via the following URL: http://forum.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10457&edit=1
Note: it's forum.mysql.com, not bugs.mysql.com.
[21 Jun 2005 9:19] Marko Mäkelä 
Now http://forum.mysql.com serves a page full of binary garbage to Mozilla Firefox, but a valid XHTML page to wget. Nevertheless, the XHTML page is still the bugs.mysql.com page.
[14 Dec 2005 23:58] Jim Winstead 
This was fixed some time ago.
[15 Dec 2005 12:16] Marko Mäkelä 
Sorry, but currently http://forum.mysql.com redirects to http://213.136.52.42/, which serves a page that seems identical to http://bugs.mysql.com. I would expect http://forum.mysql.com to either return "host not found" or to make a HTTP redirect to http://forums.mysql.com.
[5 Jan 2006 1:00] Jim Winstead 
Sorry, I missed the forum.mysql.com vs. forums.mysql.com distinction. It is really fixed now.
[5 Jan 2006 7:36] Marko Mäkelä 
Thanks, now the bug really is closed.