# Rails Wiki hacked?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-wiki-hacked/113315>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-wiki-hacked/113315 "2007-08-29T19:44:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Slant)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-wiki-hacked/113315/1 "2007-08-29T19:44:27Z")

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Either the Rails wiki has been hacked or someone internal wanted  
easier access to porn.

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/)

If you inspect the action of the search form on this page, you will  
see that it now sends anyone who wishes to use the search form, to a  
porn site.

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**Author:** ![Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Slant)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-wiki-hacked/113315/2 "2007-08-29T19:46:27Z")

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Now it seems as though the wiki has been taken down. Likely to  
resolve this.

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Service Temporarily Unavailable

## The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

That was fast. Too fast to have been a response to this message. 😉

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**Author:** ![Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Slant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Slant)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-wiki-hacked/113315/3 "2007-09-01T08:02:15Z")

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Hmm, the wiki is still up and still redirecting searches. For some  
reason, if you take the slash off the end of the URL you can still get  
there:  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails)

It’s been like this at least since the beginning of the week.
