Polycount Wiki Broken?

MillerM · Mar 17 2025

Polycount Wiki seems to be broken, is this intended? is that the case for anyone else or is it just me ?
Just met with 404 when clicked.

Joopson · Mar 17 2025

Not getting 404'd myself: the wiki loads just fine (about 40 minutes after you posted; is it working for you now?)

Eric Chadwick · Mar 17 2025

One thing that may be fouling up your connection is that we're using http: instead of https: which some browsers don't like. There's nothing being transmitted on the wiki that is sensitive data, so we don't need a cert there or anything.

I'd be curious to know what browser you're using (incl version) and if you're using a proxy service like a VPN.

Tiles · Mar 17 2025

Chromium based browsers don't support http since quite a while anymore. That's 95% of all browsers. They redirect everything http to https. Interestingly enough, Opera loads the WIKI fine.
https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/towards-https-by-default.html
This is nothing that a user can fix, unfortunately. You need to install something like Let's Encrypt (which i guess you already have installed at the server since the main page is already https) and update your apache directives.

Eric Chadwick · Mar 17 2025

Thanks for the link. My reading of it is the wiki should just work ok as-is on Chromium.

Tiles · Mar 17 2025

Hm, tested with Chrome, and the wiki indeed works. Odd. I had massive trouble with http links before too. So I would nevertheless put the Wiki behind https

MillerM · Mar 18 2025

i am still getting the errors not sure what is causing it. every other site works fine, not sure what the problem is.
the picture is with the https added instead of http
I am using:
Vivaldi 7.1.3570.60 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
I am a linux user if that makes a difference and no vpns are currently in use, and when i do open a vpn, i still get the same result.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/6u/bkh7ifa3y5b4.png

MillerM · Mar 18 2025

after hours and hours and hours of trying to figure this out........ i found the problem

for any one else that might have this issue in the future, but it cant be set per website which is not great and it must be disabled globally because of it, I had to disable this option

in my browser, it now works.

pior · Mar 18 2025

Well that's indicative of an issue with the website certificate then, as the user shouldn't have to do disable this. And indeed, the wiki domain is labelled as not secure atm :

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/a7/bgqjjno4vz3d.png

Now of course as mentionned above by Eric the website doesn't perform anything dangerous, but, it being flagged as not-secure could definitely prevent it from being displayed altogether on some strict browsers ...

Eric Chadwick · Mar 18 2025

Thanks for the sleuthing. I'll see what we can do.

On a related note, the forum software we use has made a change to their underlying system, now it will not show any image embeds if they use http: URLs.

Some of our older threads now have missing images

For example, the images here are all missing: https://polycount.com/discussion/107196/making-sense-of-hard-edges-uvs-normal-maps-and-vertex-counts/p1

I asked them for a way to disable this, but they won't do it. This means we have to manually update old images, by making new embeds.

Eric Chadwick · Mar 18 2025

I went ahead and fixed the broken images
https://polycount.com/discussion/107196/making-sense-of-hard-edges-uvs-normal-maps-and-vertex-counts/p1

thomasp · Mar 26 2025

Wonderful news regarding the https stuff. So many images in older threads will be broken. I checked my own thread and it doesn't even seem to show an icon or whatever as a placeholder for anything linking to my webspace, there's just a void, context missing.

Eric Chadwick · Mar 29 2025

Yeah you have to look at the source to see the http image links, it's the </> which is the Toggle HTML View button.

Tiles · Mar 30 2025

You could do a database query and replace http:// by https://

iam717 · Mar 30 2025

pior said: Well that's indicative of an issue with the website certificate then, as the user shouldn't have to do disable this. And indeed, the wiki domain is labelled as not secure atm Now of course as mentionned above by Eric the website doesn't perform anything dangerous, but, it being flagged as not-secure could definitely prevent it from being displayed altogether on some strict browsers ...

yes this is an issue in a lot of locations & "routers", i do not know anything bout this but do people have to pay for these? does anyone know?

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