It's interesting that the game works with the IP alone.
In shared hosting they use a virtual site, they have one IP and configurations with different URLs that will route to different sites.
This works because you send a reference to the web server of the URL you are trying to get to.

The email delay is happening on some SMF 2.1.6 forums, they say it should be fixed in 2.1.7

Have you tried to make it https://www.davejohnson.co.uk/test/? not sure if it will fix it /test is just a directory.

Another update.

As in the previous post the games works using the sites IP address. I found I didn't need the
IP:443 as the game works without it, but now when I test play the game I get an SMF error as per the image attached, the game plays fine and loads as it should, again if I substitute the IP address for the normal website the game doesn't play.

I will keep testing stuff over the next few hours and if I find anything I'll let you know.

Please don't spend to much time on this, now I'm retired it's something I do to pass the time, but I'm sure you have better things to do. If something sticks out then please let me know other than that please feel free to ignore it 


NOTE: I have now removed the link address from the 'Optional External Link' so the file will play from the internal Quizland folder

I've update the previous post Nesa, you replied before I'd finished 

NOTE: I didn't get the email notification for your first reply until after I had read the post this morning, not sure why it's being delayed, but the same thing has happened before on this site

You're welcome

Thanks very much Nesa.

Those options didn't work for me. I tested the CORS by opening F12 and the settings show as per the attached image.

However I have got it to work, instead of
https://www.davejohnson.co.uk I used
https://IP address:443 and for me the game now works. To test that it is coming from the remote site I changed the file name in the Quizland Rom storage folder and it's still works fine.

Without your help I would never have gone down that route so thanks again Nesa 

I had a hunch it might be CORS and it is.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS/Errors/CORSMissingAllowOrigin?utm_source=devtools&utm_medium=firefox-cors-errors&utm_campaign=default

You could try adding the required section in .htaccess https://nestnepal.com/blog/enable-cors-in-cpanel-for-cross-domain-access/

You would change
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" to be
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://www.davejohnson.co.uk"from his example.

It should look something like this.
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://www.davejohnson.co.uk"
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "HEAD, GET"
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Content-Type, Authorization"
</IfModule>
I've turned off the CORS check for your site using a plug in and the game loads for me.

So, my question is... are you use object storage buckets for both links?

Hi Nesa,

I have made you Arcade Admin to see if that helps you help me

The game that has the link to it is as the davejohnson.co.uk link in the first post. To see it on the website go here
https://www.quizland.co.uk/index.php?action=retro_arch;sa=play;game=6940
As I said above if you use the Contabo link it works fine. For information, I did rename my .htaccess file to see if there was anything in that which would prevent it from connecting, but then I thought about the fact I can direct link to smilies on the site as I have in this post and there are no issues, plus both links in the first post allow the file t be downloaded and that's what I don't understand

Quote from: Dave on Oct 02, 2025, 04:18 PMSorry Nesa, my son is here for a few days so I'm a bit busy at present. I'll sort it out later tomorrow, thanks for the reply though.

No need for an apology it isn't a critical thing, spend time with your son.

I've been using scrcpy for years now to interface with my phone because I can't use a touchscreen.