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Title: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Xiaoxiao on June 28, 2014, 07:48:00 PM
Whenever I type localbitcoins.com it redirects to google.com.  What is the problem?


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: moni3z on June 28, 2014, 08:33:14 PM
Whenever I type localbitcoins.com it redirects to google.com.  What is the problem?

works fine for me https://localbitcoins.com should not redirect
you have a problem with your local routes, dns or browser hijack like some sort of addon that's redirecting, or toolbar.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: haploid23 on June 28, 2014, 08:56:13 PM
It works fine for me too. Are you trying to access it from a company work machine? Or some public computers won't let you access certain websites and will auto-redirect you.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Xiaoxiao on June 28, 2014, 08:56:27 PM
Whenever I type localbitcoins.com it redirects to google.com.  What is the problem?

works fine for me https://localbitcoins.com should not redirect
you have a problem with your local routes, dns or browser hijack like some sort of addon that's redirecting, or toolbar.


thats weird, because if i type "localbitcoins.com/buy_bitcoins" it is okay but if I type "localbitcoins.com" it directs to google.com


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: grue on June 28, 2014, 10:59:15 PM
can you type this into the command prompt:
Code:
nslookup localbitcoins.com
and tell me what the output is?


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Xiaoxiao on June 28, 2014, 11:05:59 PM
can you type this into the command prompt:
Code:
nslookup localbitcoins.com
and tell me what the output is?

https://i.imgur.com/Iw0ZKaj.png


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: grue on June 28, 2014, 11:09:11 PM
ok so it's not your DNS. what browser are you using, and have you tried running in safe mode (disable all extensions)?


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Xiaoxiao on June 28, 2014, 11:10:30 PM
ok so it's not your DNS. what browser are you using, and have you tried running in safe mode (disable all extensions)?

I tried it just now.  Seems fine now.  Before, I used firefox and chrome and they both redirected to google homepage.

-edit : typing in "localbitcoins.com" takes me to theright place.  but "www.localbitcoins.com" takes me to google, lol


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: dserrano5 on June 29, 2014, 12:01:08 AM
-edit : typing in "localbitcoins.com" takes me to theright place.  but "www.localbitcoins.com" takes me to google, lol

Errr wow, I can confirm that!


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: leopard2 on June 29, 2014, 12:38:22 AM
me too ... maybe a safety measure on their webserver?  ???


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: grue on June 29, 2014, 02:06:51 AM
me too ... maybe a safety measure on their webserver?  ???
probably misconfiguration.

Code:
user@server:~# curl www.localbitcoins.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://google.com">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at www.localbitcoins.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: dserrano5 on June 29, 2014, 03:00:42 AM
And/or paranoia:

Code:
$ GET www.localbitcoins.com   ## from Perl LWP module
[…]
      <div class="cf-section cf-wrapper">
        <div class="cf-columns two">
          <div class="cf-column">
            <h2 data-translate="what_happened">What happened?</h2>
            <p>The owner of this website (www.localbitcoins.com) has banned your access based on your browser's signature (141edd26d9e00ca1-ua24).</p>
          </div>

          
        </div>
      </div><!-- /.section -->
[…]

Did you curl as root? ;)


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Bizmark13 on June 29, 2014, 03:09:24 AM
Errr wow, I can confirm that!

Yup, same here. Seems to be a recent thing too. I had "www.localbitcoins.com (http://www.localbitcoins.com)" as one of my browser bookmarks and I remember it simply redirected to the "www"-less version.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Nagato4 on June 29, 2014, 04:52:28 AM
Errr wow, I can confirm that!

Yup, same here. Seems to be a recent thing too. I had "www.localbitcoins.com" as one of my browser bookmarks and I remember it simply redirected to the "www"-less version.

+1.
I don't recall getting redirected to Google in the past.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: newIndia on June 29, 2014, 09:24:02 AM
me too ... maybe a safety measure on their webserver?  ???
probably misconfiguration.

Code:
user@server:~# curl www.localbitcoins.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://google.com">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at www.localbitcoins.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Looks like domain level misconfiguration. WWW CNAME is pointing to Google.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: GreenCoin22 on June 30, 2014, 02:37:12 AM
I have here does not appear that you said this situation


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: ramkumar on June 30, 2014, 05:33:32 AM
use .htaccess to redirect www to non-www url.


Title: Re: localbitcoins.com redirects to google.com
Post by: Xiaoxiao on July 07, 2014, 11:10:55 PM
it's still doing this for me