Randem Systems Support Board

Ok, mke sure he knows NOT to re-install SMF. Only regain access to the site from the hosting company.

It's sorted. Just spoke to my friend on the phone, he's taking care of it. He wasn't angry.
He might join the thread. The guy is a genius.
He programs online banking for various banks and is a very good musician.

No, not restart the forum, the VPS server. That is where the issue lies. The forum is fine. access to the server is blocked. The VPS server is blocking access to the forum. You do have a VPS server yes? It could just be an SSL issue. Your hosting company will know why it is blocking access to the forum.

I can't do that because I don't know anything about it, but I'll ask the friend who installed the SMF forum for me to restart the forum. I was hoping I could avoid that because he's a busy person and he'll scold me for installing the mod. The forum was working great before.
Now I can see the advantages of the MyBB forum software.
MODs are independent modules that do not change the structure of the forum. If something does not work as desired, you can simply delete the plugin.
SMF has more convenient admin functions, while MyBB is quite complicated to use and doesn't have a package manager. You have to upload files laboriously via FTP or SFTP.

Thank you for your efforts and support.

I believe the issue is with the NGINX cache and it may need to be cleared. You can do this in a couple ways.

In WMM, go to "Software->NGINX Manager" Click "Clear Cache For All Users"

The other method involve command line entries and deleting the cache fie.
This may differ depending on the OS on your server.

Restart NGINX server after deleting the cache.

in a hour I go to sleep. Here is after midnight

Quote from: Randem on January 22, 2026, 02:27:25 PMCheck your PM and email

done

Check your PM and email

No change, same problem

Anscheinend gibt es ein Problem mit dieser Website

https://music-lofo.de/?s hat möglicherweise ein temporäres Problem oder ist umgezogen.

Fehlercode: 500 Internal Server Error

    Die Website könnte vorübergehend nicht erreichbar sein, versuchen Sie es bitte später nochmals.



done!

Yes, delete the .htaccess file.

Should I delete the htaccess or not?

Quote from: Randem on January 22, 2026, 10:39:26 AMOK, with BotBanish uninstalled the only redirection should be from the cache in your browser. After deleting the .htaccess and clearing the browser cache or using a different browser you should be able to access the site. We don't have Vodafone in our block list but that does not mean that something else in the USER-AGENT did not trigger this response.

Check your USER-AGENT - https://dnschecker.org/user-agent-info.php

I usually use two browsers: Firefox and Vivaldi (Chrome-compatible).
I don't usually use a VPN.
Kabel Deutschland was taken over by Vodafone a few years ago. Unfortunately. The service used to be much better before that.I usually use two browsers: Firefox and Vivaldi (Chrome-compatible).
I don't usually use a VPN.
Kabel Deutschland was taken over by Vodafone a few years ago. Unfortunately. The service used to be much better before that.

OK, with BotBanish uninstalled the only redirection should be from the cache in your browser. After deleting the .htaccess and clearing the browser cache or using a different browser you should be able to access the site. We don't have Vodafone in our block list but that does not mean that something else in the USER-AGENT did not trigger this response.

Check your USER-AGENT - https://dnschecker.org/user-agent-info.php

Quote from: Randem on January 22, 2026, 10:25:01 AMGood, then just delete the .htaccess and clear your browser cache or put ?a after the domain IE. https://music-lofo.de?s

What is your IP address?

when I back home, i will do this