NS installer file not found
Gelfling
Encinitas, CA Join Date: 2007-07-05 Member: 61499Members
Encinitas, CA Join Date: 2007-07-05 Member: 61499Members
I showed one of my friends the game and he wanted to install it.
Clicking on the download link went to a 404 not found page for the exe installer. Somebody goofed big.
Details:
On the instructions page "http://unknownworlds.com/ns/download-files/" Step 2 says:
"2. Download and install the latest Natural Selection from here (156 megabytes). Now close and restart Steam or it won’t appear in your games list."
The link at the word "here" points to "http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe"
Clicking that link unexpectedly returns a page that says "404 — File not found." instead of just downloading the installer as it has always done.
Hopefully someone has a backup file and can make the download work again with a quick and easy fix.
Thanks in advance.
Clicking on the download link went to a 404 not found page for the exe installer. Somebody goofed big.
Details:
On the instructions page "http://unknownworlds.com/ns/download-files/" Step 2 says:
"2. Download and install the latest Natural Selection from here (156 megabytes). Now close and restart Steam or it won’t appear in your games list."
The link at the word "here" points to "http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe"
Clicking that link unexpectedly returns a page that says "404 — File not found." instead of just downloading the installer as it has always done.
Hopefully someone has a backup file and can make the download work again with a quick and easy fix.
Thanks in advance.
Comments
Also here's a mirror graceliously still hosted by Bry after all these years
http://www.brywright.co.uk/downloads/files/index.php?dir=natural-selection/install/
Firefox 25.0 didn't work. Just upgraded to 26.0 and that didn't work either.
Here this might help... its the log from the LiveHTTP Headers firefox plugin:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe
GET /files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe HTTP/1.1
Host: www.unknownworlds.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.681086060.1390805107
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: WP Engine/5.0
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:58:15 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
X-Cacheable: CacheAlways: forever
Cache-Control: max-age=86400, must-revalidate
X-Cache: HIT: 21
Content-Encoding: gzip
I figure your browser detection failed somehow and doesn't know what to do with Firefox(or recent versions).
I additionally started FF in safe mode (all plugins disabled). That didn't work either.
I hope its as simple as adding another if statement to existing server code.(a never-ending battle)
Hope this helps.
Ah, this link actually works. Please update the one on the "Files" page ( https://unknownworlds.com/ns/download-files/ ) as its probably one of the reasons a lot of people haven't been playing it as much. (Through windows upgrades, replacements, clean installs, and they can't get the download from that page)
Thanks a bunch.