Fanart-Central archive trouble with the Wayback Machine

Dumas · Still very bored Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 345

I tried to archived a copy of Fanart-Central home page on the Wayback Machine, and this is what the Wayback machine archived recently.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250424141819/https://www.fanart-central.net/
compared to the archived copy on Archive.today.
https://archive.ph/UMRwd

Edit: When I archived my profile on the Wayback Machine, it show a "404 not found" and below "nginx/1.22.1".
https://web.archive.org/web/20250428170505/https://www.fanart-central.net/user/Dumas/profile I wonder if it could be due to the cache or cookies?

Dumas · Still very bored Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 345

I apologize for double posting. I archived again on the Wayback Machine and it shows as message: "welcome to nginx! If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required."
https://web.archive.org/web/20250511165149/https://www.fanart-central.net/

Meanwhile, the archive work properly on other archiving sites like GhostArchive and Archive.today.
https://archive.ph/LdCMR
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PKVRS

Dumas · Still very bored Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 345

I discovered by luck this detail on GhostArchive when I archived a copy of Fanart-central.

When I typed "http", it show the archived copy properly.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TmvGh

However, when I typed "https", it shows the "Welcome to Nginx" message.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/GfP9U

Edit: I saw the same detail with Archive.today as well. Here the links to compare.
https://archive.ph/ZhkV1
https://archive.ph/xK028

Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah . . . that would explain it, apparently this site hasn't been properly configured for https.
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Dumas · Still very bored Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 345

[quote="Stratadrake"]Yeah . . . that would explain it, apparently this site hasn't been properly configured for https.[/quote]

One more discovery I did, Fanart-central was shown properly on the Wayback Machine on April 23, 2025
https://web.archive.org/web/20250423083312/https://www.fanart-central.net/
the trouble where it show "Welcome to Nginx" have beginned on April 24, 2025.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250424141819/https://www.fanart-central.net/

Dumas · Still very bored Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 345

An other discovery I saw, is the Wayback Machine archived properly the Fanart-central forums, here the recent archived copy from last September. https://web.archive.org/web/20250907213751/http://forums.fanart-central.net/

I wonder if some SSL/security certificate who have expired might also play a part in the http/https configuaration?