Today I was writing an answer here ... but when trying to post something went wrong ...

Now I can access the thread overview in the forum – but when selecting some of the threads I get either:

The database connection failed. Please check your database configuration in include/db/config.php. If the configuration is okay, check if the database server is running.

or

An error has been encountered in accessing this page.

1. Server: kmeleonbrowser.org
2. URL path: /forum/read.php
3. Error notes: Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
4. Error type: 403
5. Request method: GET
6. Request query string: 1,154549
7. Time: 2021-02-26 09:59:19 UTC (1614333559)

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There are some links inside that are not citable as I am told that they contain forbidden words.

It also happened with url path "/forum/" and request query string "NONE" ...

This only happened with KM75.1 (not with other browser) on the same PC.

PS: error is gone now and does not happen anymore ...



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2021 11:56AM by Voltaire.

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Voltaire
Today I was writing an answer here ... but when trying to post something went wrong ...

Now I can access the thread overview in the forum – but when selecting some of the threads I get either:

The database connection failed. Please check your database configuration in include/db/config.php. If the configuration is okay, check if the database server is running.

That is SourceForge overloaded by spammers that, in turn, actually is an overload of the K-meleon pages/databases.

We can't do anything from here.

P.S.: I say spammers, but it is any bad actor, actually. The net is more of a jungle than what it was 20 years ago in terms of hacking and cracking.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2021 03:51PM by JohnHell.

... btw: could be that it was me myself ... I remember having pressed the send button more than once as there did not seem any reaction of having sent the post — and that was the result ... :|