[GNC] Temporary Website URL

[Brad Morrison]

Thanks for point these situations out Ken! The reason I joined the 
GnuCash-User mailing lists was because I sent a link to an acquaintance 
that does bookkeeping professionally and he texted back that the website 
was down, he then did a Google search and tried the GnuCash result on 
his own and that link didn't work either, and he then goes on to tell me 
that this is why he doesn't trust open source projects with his business 
or his clients' business. It was pretty embarrassing for me and I have 
hesitated to refer any possibly interested professionals that I meet to 
GnuCash since.

I can confirm the certificate error for website #1. It looks like 
gnucash.org uses Let's Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) as the 
certificate authority and the certificate was valid from December 12, 
2022 until March 11, 2023. My understanding was that Let's Encrypt was 
free, so that might mean that it just has to be renewed/reauthorized...?

I can confirm that website #2 still lists the "Apache2 Ubuntu Default 
Page" error for the non-https/secure gnucash website. I believe that 
John mentioned that Linas upgraded his server in January and that broke 
this feature and it has not been fixed since.

I also see Gnucash website #3 as working well. I can see that that 
website also uses Let's Encrypt as the certificate authority and that 
certificate is valid from March 5, 2023 until June 3, 2023.

I also noticed that website #1 & #2 has 2 "Subject Alt Names" 
(gnucash.org & www.gnucash.org) on that certificate, while website #3 
has just 1 (code.gnucash.org).

After briefly reading a few of the mailing list messages on US 
banks/credit unions that are not allowing their transaction to be 
downloaded/available in an open format, I have also wanted to start 
emailing various financial institutions about whether they intend to 
make such a format available. I would still need to further review the 
formatting situation described in the email chains before I start asking 
around and then opening an account at such a financial institution, but 
if the main GnuCash website still doesn't work, it is hard to write such 
emails at all.

Brad


On 3/17/23 11:00, Ken Pyzik wrote:
> So checking websites statuses today:
>
> https://www.gnucash.org  - privacy/certificate error
> http://www.gnucash.org  - Default appache2 page
> https://code.gnucash.org/website  - working perfectly.
>
> As noted - this has been an issue since 11 February.  The https:// was working at one point a couple of weeks ago -- but now it is not.
>
> FYI -- Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user<gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=outlook.com at gnucash.org>  On Behalf Of John Ralls
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 3:40 PM
> To:gnucash-announce at lists.gnucash.org
> Cc: gnucash-devel<gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>; Gnucash Users<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: [GNC] Temporary Website URL
>
> As most everyone already knowswww.gnucash.org  has been offline since 11 February because Linas Vepstas lost internet access and his ISP, Grande Networks in Austin, TX, has not fixed it.
>
> To provide replacement service until Linas gets back online we've set up an alternate site,https://code.gnucash.org/website/.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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