Bug 171816 - www.access2base.com - This site can’t be reached - DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Summary: www.access2base.com - This site can’t be reached - DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.8.0
Keywords:
: 94620 171817 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-04-20 18:46 UTC by Andre Mikulec
Modified: 2026-05-11 10:25 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
Access2Base documentation (8.97 MB, application/zip)
2026-04-22 13:16 UTC, Jean-Pierre Ledure
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Description Andre Mikulec 2026-04-20 18:46:27 UTC
Description:
I tried to browse to the documentation of the LibreOffice component access2base at htts://www.access2base.com/ and https://www.access2base.com/ in the browser Google Chrome.  Each time, I receive back a blank page, with only the words in the page, in the center of the page, "This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in www.access2base.com. If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In any web browser, browse to http://www.access2base.com/ 
2. In any web browser, browse to https://www.access2base.com/ 

Actual Results:
1. In any web browser, browse to http://www.access2base.com/ 
2. In any web browser, browse to https://www.access2base.com/ 

Expected Results:
www.access2base.com home page loads correctly


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
NOTE, I tried to start to report this error at "https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/" but Single Sign-On is not working.
Comment 1 Andre Mikulec 2026-04-20 20:32:58 UTC
This is not SPAM.
Comment 2 Andre Mikulec 2026-04-20 20:39:41 UTC
I am looking for the new documentation site to access2base 
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/guide/access2base.html gives me the URL to here: http://www.access2base.com/  However, when I browse to there, I receive back the message,  "This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in www.access2base.com. If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN."
Comment 3 Julien Nabet 2026-04-21 10:13:17 UTC
Jean-Pierre: I confirm the website can't be reached whereas it's indicated in different locations in source code.
Any thoughts here?
Comment 4 Julien Nabet 2026-04-21 10:13:59 UTC
*** Bug 171817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jean-Pierre Ledure 2026-04-22 13:14:13 UTC
The bug is confirmed.
I had indeed to relinquish the domain name and the webhosting for personal reasons. Sorry for that.

I would prefer for the future to have the opportunity to store the documentation on a TDF host.
- wiki ?
- Source repo ?
- ...

Olivier, a suggestion ?

Anyway, as a workaround for the short-term, and to see how it looks now, I insert asap a zipped version of the actual content of the site. Unzip it in any directory on your hard disk and open access2base.html.
Comment 6 Jean-Pierre Ledure 2026-04-22 13:16:56 UTC
Created attachment 206782 [details]
Access2Base documentation

Unzip and open access2base.html
Comment 7 Andre Mikulec 2026-04-22 22:30:54 UTC
The documentation needs to be stored on a server somewhere that is outside of non-opensource control.  Having a 3rd party domain or host go down and the documentation disappearing forever is not a good idea.  Do any good places exist to store the documentation ?
Comment 8 Olivier Hallot 2026-04-24 12:24:16 UTC
the A2B documentation is now available at

https://access2base.libreoffice.org

The help page development is stored in TDF git repo at

https://git.libreoffice.org/dev-tools/+/refs/heads/master/Access2Base/
Comment 9 Olivier Hallot 2026-04-24 12:26:08 UTC
*** Bug 94620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 BogdanB 2026-04-24 14:24:27 UTC
Thanks, Olivier.
Comment 11 BogdanB 2026-04-25 13:27:45 UTC
(In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #8)
> the A2B documentation is now available at
> 
> https://access2base.libreoffice.org
> 
> The help page development is stored in TDF git repo at
> 
> https://git.libreoffice.org/dev-tools/+/refs/heads/master/Access2Base/

Olivier, I made a patch to also update the Help about the correct link.
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/204340
Comment 12 Commit Notification 2026-04-25 19:09:07 UTC
Bogdan Buzea committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/8b9d6582cf42fc3898e4bbed700e1bf263bc69ec

tdf#171816 Change the link to Acces2Base in Help
Comment 13 Commit Notification 2026-04-27 19:58:36 UTC
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/5fdf0a21d5194f949c4663475efcd3e591fc943d

Related tdf#171816: fix link in wizards module files

It will be available in 26.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 14 BogdanB 2026-04-28 00:16:03 UTC
About this bug one more thing is to do, Adolpho from Ubuntu noticed. On the help page before the link the icon is exclamation mark, like a danger icon, maybe it should be chamged to something like info icon. Olivier?
Comment 15 Julien Nabet 2026-04-28 07:09:21 UTC
In the dev-tools repo, there are also  all the links with "http://www.access2base.com/", eg:
git grep -in 'http://www.access2base'
_update/access2base.update.xml:7:    <src xlink:href="http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html#DownLoad" />
_update/access2base.update.xml:10:    <src xlink:href="http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html#ReleaseNotes" lang="en" />
access2base.html:2425:var url=&quot;http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html&quot;;  //store.getTiddlerText(&quot;SiteUrl&quot;);
access2base.html:2440:  var url=&quot;http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html&quot;;        //store.getTiddlerText(&quot;SiteUrl&quot;);
access2base.html:2457:  var url=&quot;http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html&quot;;        //store.getTiddlerText(&quot;SiteUrl&quot;);
access2base.html:8345:Read about ''[[BASEDOCUMENTER|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter]]'': a new ~LibreOffice __extension__ for producing a __HTML documentation__ of Base applications.
access2base.html:12632:| 0.6.0 | 04/2012 |New actions [[SelectObject]], [[Minimize]], [[Maximize]] and [[MoveSize]]&lt;br /&gt;&quot;~Access2Base Help&quot; menu command in IDE opens Online help on [[www.access2base.com|http://www.access2base.com]]. ||
access2base.html:14199:<pre>http://www.access2base.com/</pre>
access2base.html:16149:Most examples have been implemented in a database that can be ''downloaded [[HERE|http://www.access2base.com/_howtos/TT NorthWind.zip]].''
basedocumenter.html:570:var url=&quot;http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/basedocumenter.html&quot;;      //store.getTiddlerText(&quot;SiteUrl&quot;);
basedocumenter.html:586:__The results are visitable from the ''[[EXAMPLES SITE|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/TOC.html]]''__.
basedocumenter.html:596:|&gt;| Visit the ''[[EXAMPLES SITE|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/TOC.html]]'' |
basedocumenter.html:601:*the [[TOC template|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/BD_TOC_Template.html]]
basedocumenter.html:602:*or the [[template for documentation pages|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/BD_Template.html]]
basedocumenter.html:604:Both use next [[CSS stylesheet|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/BD_Stylesheet.css]]:
basedocumenter.html:944://~BaseDocumenter// uses internally the [[Access2Base|http://www.access2base.com/access2base.html]] library. Its minimal required version is 1.8.0.
basedocumenter.html:957:As a starting point, you can also simply ''DOWNLOAD'' the templates used in the examples from ''[[HERE|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/_download/Templates.zip]]''. Unzip the downloaded file in an empty directory where you plan to store later on the documentation of your databases.
basedocumenter.html:1231:<pre>http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/basedocumenter.html</pre>
basedocumenter.html:1977:Two different templates (1 for the //table of contents// and 1 for the data) are used in the [[examples|Examples]] pages. They make use of stylesheets and javascript. They might help you to build your own templates. Feel free to ''DOWNLOAD'' them from ''[[HERE|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/_download/Templates.zip]]'' and rework them for your own uses.</pre>
basedocumenter.html:1986:**is the author of the biggest example on this site: [[GenoBase|http://www.access2base.com/basedocumenter/examples/GenoBase/Database.html]],
Comment 16 Julien Nabet 2026-04-28 07:25:52 UTC
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #15)
> In the dev-tools repo, there are also  all the links with
> "http://www.access2base.com/", eg:
> ...
I made a patch here https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/dev-tools/+/204491
but there are still some weird things, eg:
https://access2base.libreoffice.org/basedocumenter.html doesn't work whereas in the repo, I can see basedocumenter.html (idem for access2base.html)
Comment 17 Dennis Roczek 2026-04-28 10:04:01 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Pierre Ledure from comment #5)
> - wiki ?

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=%2A.www.access2base.com%2F

95 entries, easy replaceable.
Comment 18 Dennis Roczek 2026-05-11 10:25:29 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Pierre Ledure from comment #5)
> - wiki ?
all links fixed.

> Olivier, a suggestion ?
Can you update the links on https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/basedocumenter-to-document-your-base-applications ?