Cannot access main Church website...?

[christopherbross]

For at least a couple of weeks now, I have been unable to access the main Church website. I can get to the homepage just fine and most of the menu links load just fine but nothing beyond that seems to work. I get "Error 400" when navigating within the website and I get an "Error 431" when trying to link-in from Google or another external site. I've tried doing a hard refresh to no avail. I've been able to find workarounds using other sites, hard copies of manuals, etc. but it is starting to become disconcerting.

I've noticed many others mentioning similar issues on Reddit and other social media sites. There is even a post on this board about it but there doesn't seem to be any solutions within the thread.

Is this a common issue? Have there been any solutions?

Thanks!

[russellhltn]

I'd think we'd see far more complaints if it was wide spread. You may have a computer or browser infected with something, you have a filter turned on that isn't liking church content for some reason, or perhaps your DNS isn't up to par. Most people just use the DNS their ISP assigns them, but some find better luck with a well-respected public DNS.

[salaskat@gmail.com]

I'm having the same problem. I have checked for viruses and have none. It is very frustrating.

[anita87]

I also have the same problem I can't even look at the scriptures or the conferences or most content on the website. For example, here are some pages I cannot open:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... e?lang=spa
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... l?lang=spa
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... 6?lang=eng

It just behaves like it is loading and then there it just leaves it as a white page. I'm using Chrome browser in a windows laptop.

[cinroundy]

I am having the same problem for the last 3 days when you try to click on anything from gospel library it shows the initial menu page but if you try to click on an actual chapter from the Book of Mormon or a specific conference talk, the page is blank. I am on an macbook pro using Safari.

[lidsfam]

I'm having the same problem on a Macbook Pro using Firefox. Cannot access the scriptures and many other random pages on the Church website. Sometimes, I can navigate through a few pages, but I can't get to the final page. I tried "leaving feedback", but when I click "submit" nothing happens!

[Crawby]

I am having a similar problem but only with Chrome. Safari and Edge seem to work (albeit slower than normal). If I go into incognito mode and try, however, it works so there must be some conflict with one of the extensions. I'll try and figure it out and post a followup (the idea of trying incognito mode just popped into my head while typing this).

[russellhltn]

If I go into incognito mode and try, however, it works so there must be some conflict with one of the extensions.

It might be an extension, or it might be cache/cookie problem. There's been times when the church changes the webpage and I have to go in and delete all cookies associated with churchofjesuschrist.org to get things to work again.

[smnche]

Had the same problem. Tried the incognito which was the clue. I had to delete the application storage for chrome and not just the cookies using the Chrome Developer tools. Very annoying as it happened across all my devices and computers.

[kenwedin]

For a few days, I’ve been unable to load the website on my MacBook. Sometimes, some pages would work or would begin to partially load, but clicking on links of completely downloaded pages that led to an inability to load anything but also not timing out. I was able to load a page from The Book of Mormon and listen to the audio while reading, but as soon as I logged into my account, my former problems returned. I then logged out in case there was something wrong with my account. The result is that the Scriptures and Book of Mormon page show only an empty frame in the center and sidebar, but the page has supposedly loaded (is not endlessly trying to load). At least that's an improvement on the total inability to load anything, even if there's nothing to read or listen to on the page.

As for suggestions that the Mac may be infected, I’ll state that I had a message appear on my iPhone and iPad for all of my languages, claiming that I wasn't connected to the Internet, even though everything else worked on those devices with regard to the Internet. I quit and reloaded the apps, but it still didn't work throughout two days of trying various approaches. I finally had to delete the apps on both devices and spend two days downloading the tens of gigabytes of audio data. That seems to have worked, but it was quite time intensive. Now, though, I'm back to being unload the website on my Mac, while the rest of the Internet works fine.

I'm not sure why this tech.churchofjesuschrist.org section of the website works when anything beyond the root directory without the tech subdomain fails to work.