Error 500 Website on Mweb

not working on afribiz dsl.
but is working through opera turbo and proxyeasy.
weird. i normally get 500 errors when apache has a config problem with an htaccess file with a bad config directive.
 
murraybiscuit said:
not working on afribiz dsl.
but is working through opera turbo and proxyeasy.
weird. i normally get 500 errors when apache has a config problem with an htaccess file with a bad config directive.
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Thanks alot,

Is it at all possible that one of the Tier 1 ISP's are blocking access for some arbitrary reason?
 
Definately odd. Tried from home via TI and get a gateway timeout.

Its either a ACL issue on their side, or a routing issue. Maybe they firewalled off SA DSL IP's?

From work I get the same traceroute as yours above and can browse to the site.

From home I get request timed out at no. 14 and 15 and can't connect.
 
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I just tried it through my mtn 3g on my nokia 5800xm and it loads, will do a tracert when i can get to a pc.
 
I dont think you can blame mweb, since 500 server error is easily caused by a badly written, broken, or failed website script. Chances are the website owner is just leasing space and they're responsible for the content.
 
rurapente said:
I dont think you can blame mweb, since 500 server error is easily caused by a badly written, broken, or failed website script. Chances are the website owner is just leasing space and they're responsible for the content.
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I don't agree with that though, as i've just tried it on my laptop connected to Mweb and it doesn't load, i then plugged in and connected with my 3G card and just pressed F5 in IE and it then loaded fine

It cannot then be a website issue?
 
The error 500 is a backend server issue. Looks like there are two issues though. I don't get a 500 error any more - I now get a gateway timeout issue which means its a routing or ACL problem.
 
gregmcc said:
The error 500 is a backend server issue. Looks like there are two issues though. I don't get a 500 error any more - I now get a gateway timeout issue which means its a routing or ACL problem.
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Thanks once again greg

I've sent another mail to Mweb technical support, and included a link to this thread. Will PM the thread to the Mweb Rep as well.
 
The funniest thing, this website works on a MTN 3G connection, but not on a Vodacom 3G connection?
 
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