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Geographic coordinate tool producing 403 Forbidden Error
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Author: hersfoldwiki

Description:
When clicking on links produced by Template:coord on the English Wikipedia (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord), the template is supposed to access the geohack tool, as shown in the URL above. For unknown reasons, this is producing a 403 Forbidden Error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~magnus/geo/geohack.php on this server.
Apache Server at tools.wikimedia.de Port 80

This has happened to several other people as well, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#403_Forbidden_error_on_coordinates for discussion.

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?pagename=Wikipedia:Help_desk&params=34_03_N_118_15_W

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bz11369

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 21 2014, 9:54 PM
• bzimport added a project: WMF-General-or-Unknown.
• bzimport set Reference to bz11369.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Sep 17 2007, 5:11 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Sep 17 2007, 6:08 AM

titoxd.wikimedia wrote:

I can't reproduce this bug. Maybe it is intermittent?

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 17 2007, 10:26 AM

matthew.britton wrote:

Geohack is on the toolserver, which has been having problems lately.

• werdna added a comment.Sep 17 2007, 11:04 AM

GeoHack was disabled on the toolserver, because it was causing a DNS flood.

dungodung added a comment.Sep 18 2007, 10:41 AM

Obviously not a MediaWiki issue. There is a Toolserver Bugzilla (which doesn't seem to be working at the moment), so I suggest going there.

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 18 2007, 10:47 AM

robchur wrote:

To be fair; the bug was filed in the Wikimedia component, and if the Toolserver-specific BugZilla is unavailable, then there's not much point directing people there - if a report here doesn't get acted upon (which is quite possible), then a better option is to email zedler-admins at wikimedia dot org with a report.

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