I've been using and building the site extensively in the past two days, most of it being done at the company where I work. Now I know my company has an extremely sensitive firewall (all internet mail is blocked, for example)... but this is just ridiculous.
Just to give an over view, I've installed all the basic modules... and the site worked fine. I was able to edit everything from work. THEN, I decided to add the Fivestar Module... I've added one part of it at a time (there are several modules needed for this to work), and it worked fine.
Until I added the Views and CCK module, and changed the permissions.
After these two modules were installed, I cannot even access the main site.
Is there a known issue in this regard, or is there something in those two modules that might have affected triggering the company firewall?
Please help!!! THANK YOU!!!
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Your company IT department
Your company IT department probably saw a lot of traffic to the site and went "oooh no get back to work you"
hardly
I hardly believe that is the case, with a max of 100 page views per day (all from me). I am sure www.victoriassecret.com is clicked through many more times than my site. Makes no sense, this has to be a problem with the module settings which triggers the firewall.
You would be surprised. IT
You would be surprised.
IT duders "Oh hey look someone is FTPing some stuff to somenonworksite.com"
IT duders "Looks like someone has a little side project. Add somenonworksite.com to the blacklist"
Possibly, but when you have
Possibly, but when you have 120,000 employees in a company, does uploading 20 files through an FTP really get noticed?
I don't know why i am being so skeptical that this may be the cause, but I'd have to say it could be a possibility.
I've found at even very large
I've found at even very large places, things get blocked that are low traffic. Sometimes it is the blocking software. Imagine you go to the site let say 10 times and it works, an hour later when the blocking software is checking logs and checking new sites it is unaware of it mistakenly flags your site as bad material.
That would explain why it worked for a bit then stopped working. In my experiences that is pretty typical.
Let's assume this is the
Let's assume this is the case... my only option would be to contact IT and tell them that I have a side project for them to unlock it? meaning, they will have to manually unlock that site?
Pretty much. I usually say "I
Pretty much. I usually say "I cant access X which I need for research of Y"
Or I just use an SSH tunnel.
Thanks, but unfortunately i
Thanks, but unfortunately i think i will be out of luck if this is the case.
I would have to go through an approval process... which is not going to happen.
Oddly enough though, i have been editing another site from work for the past 6 months, and that hasn't been blocked. I am not using Drupal with the other site, it is sort of a "work in progress" CMS, built by some friends. So this is why it led me to believe a module may have triggered the block.
Either way, this leaves me with no options, and no Drupal to work with (at work). Oh well.
Thanks!
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proxy server though, it probably wont be long before they pick that up too and your workstation at this point is probably being logged. In a downward economy I'd be careful of what I'm doing at work. You cost less to fire than you do to put on the unemployment line.
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If you think it's views and/or CCK remove them from the installation. Or create a new test site that doesn't include those modules.
Well I tried this as well, I
Well I tried this as well, I removed CCK and Views... no luck.
Did I mention that the message I get is as stated below:
"You have attempted to navigate to a site that is blocked because it is categorized as Sex"
Sex??? this is a site about fixing your credit! And it has NO content in it!
I think i am SOL right now, because as soon as i type the address and hit enter, it immediately forwards me to that blocked screen. ugh. I'd have to assume the address is logged, and that's it.
I was going to suggest
I was going to suggest pinging the domain and IP address of the site, but your most recent post answered the question.
Your company probably subscribes to a blacklist service (for instance if they use something like Sonicwall, as the company I do IT work for does, it has this feature built in, and updates a master list of blocked sites in a wide variety of categories)... how your site got on it though I don't know. Anyone who knows the address could have submitted it and got it blacklisted (e.g. a friend as a joke, an enemy, your boss, the IT staff, whatever). On the other hand, the firewall could easily flag sites employees go to that contain any particular keywords in the URL, title, content, etc (and "fixing credit" is guaranteed to be on that list of keywords). This is presented to the IT staff in a list and blocking it from further access is as easy as a single click (they also, if they're even remotely competent and they probably are, can see within a few seconds of work which computer on the network accessed the site... heck they can even watch your screen in real time without you knowing it). It's their job to do that, so it's not personal if that's the case. An employee using FTP or some other uncommon port will also instantly raise a flag. If it was an outside source that got you on the blacklist somehow, then that wouldn't surprise me - I've seen all kinds of sites blacklisted that should NOT be, and we get requests all the time from employees to manually override a blocked site. Fortunately being on IT staff, when I find these myself (e.g. looking for hotfix bla bla bla #5884375 and the most promising looking result in google gets blocked by the firewall), I can personally remove it.
One thing to look into though... if you are on an actual service's blacklist (and not just your company's augmented list), then MANY companies and services subscribe to that list, and your site will be blocked to all of them. You will want to make sure your domain is removed from that list as soon as possible.
And last of all... hate to say it, but probably best to only do your work at work ;) unless this is just something you do on break/lunch whatever. If you're allowed to install software, you could get WAMP.
There's no module that would have "caused" this.
Forgot to mention... as an
Forgot to mention... as an interesting "other side" of the coin. At the company I work for drupal.org actually blocked that company's IP! :P Some computer somewhere in the company was infected with some virus and spewing out spam to the world, and the company's main IP block was added to a blacklist (one which drupal.org happens to use). So I had to find and fix the infected computer, and then ask to be removed from the blacklist.
Great observations and thanks
Great observations and thanks for the insight... guess i will avert my time at work to something more useful, like catching up on Prison Break or Heroes instead lol