Broken website pages - solved

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Here is a weird one. Occasionally I use the Integrity app to check for broken links on my websites. It turned up several pages on my photo blog that uses Poster 2 that never showed up before. There are several permalink pages that are broken- they display fine, but every link on the page does not work! The pages in question work fine in Rapidweaver preview, but once published they are broken. Here is an example…

If you click on the title of the post “Army Girl”, it takes you to the permalink that has broken links, even the navigation:

This blog has been up for years, I think this is a recent development. I tried deleting the post and rebuilding a new post from scratch, but get the same results. This is only happening on 3 out of 68 posts. Could this be due to a recent Poster update? Anyone have any idea? Jannis?

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No, didn’t do any changes in months.

Did you change anything on the website?

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The website has been basically static for quite a while. The photo blog itself has not been changed for several years. I did update Poster 2 a while back, but have not checked on my blog until a few days ago. Seems like a strange thing to happen, just a few random permalinks being broken like this. Is there a source for previous versions of Poster to experiment with?

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You can get older versions, but you’re the only one with such an issue.

I would first of all contact the hosting company why there are HTTP 449 server errors coming up for some of the requested resources, but not all.

This is definitely no error caused by Poster 2.

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I checked the links from different pages to https://www.joelfletcher.com/recent-paintings/.

The target URL is always the same, but when you receive the blank page, the server also returns a HTTP 449 server error.

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Interesting. I will check with my hosting service. Thanks Jannis.

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Okay, the culprit was indeed my hosting provider who had recently increased the firewall protection due to some denial of service attacks on his servers. All fixed now!

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Had the same issue a week or so ago on Chillidog.

EDIT to add: Poster 2 triggered the symptoms, but was not the culprit.

@barchard was helpful (as usual).

Leaving this here, in case anyone else has this problem.

In cPanel, scroll down to Nginx Firewall, and disable Referer Spam Protection for the affected domain.

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