Website root URL problem

[loblolly986]

One would think that http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/ would redirect to the forum index at http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/, but it just returns an empty page instead.

I was initially confused when I ran into this recently, and suspect others trying to view this site have been as well.

[TelePlay]

It's not a problem. Classic Rotary Phones was a blog under the Vintage Rotary Phones umbrella and Classic Rotary Phones / Forum was under Classic Rotary Phones.

The Classic Rotary Phones blog is not populated, it is "empty" and shows as a white screen - nothing to see there.

[loblolly986]

Ordinary Internet practice is for the root URL of a website to return something meaningful—at least a simple page along the lines of "this space reserved; if you're looking for X, go here", or an HTTP redirect to what the average visitor was probably looking for. The server here isn't even returning any HTML at all, just an empty file. Someone typing "classicrotaryphones.com" in their web browser will probably end up with that; they'd have to know to append "/forum" to get here.

Checking the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, I see that the root URL did indeed lead to the Classic Rotary Phones blog as late as an April 9, 2022 snapshot. Starting with the next snapshot on July 8, it shows the empty page. I'm guessing this was unintentionally brought about when Dennis updated the forum software shortly after that April snapshot and it just went unnoticed.

[TelePlay]

You're right and I suggest you PM Dennis to discuss that and possibly offer any fixes for that issue, it's something only the Admin can deal with and the Admin is Dennis.

[Contempra]

You're right and I suggest you PM Dennis to discuss that and possibly offer any fixes for that issue, it's something only the Admin can deal with and the Admin is Dennis.

Good idea because personally I really liked this blog. This is the first time I saw a site for old phones