>>>> Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> 12/13/2011 10:58 AM >>>
>Hello,
>
>Matthew, you probably already know that
>    http://en.opensuse.org/
>(without specifying a page) is totally broken - I can wait forever, but
>nothing happens.
I was aware that it used to be broken, but I thought I had it working.

>The wiki works in general - for example http://en.opensuse.org/foo loads
>instantly. Funnily even http://en.opensuse.org/index.php loads without
>problems.
>
>I have no idea what really happens here, but since index.php works,
>I recommend you have a very close look at your rewrite rules. There
>could be an endless redirect loop when "/" is requested... (inside
>mod_rewrite / your rewrite rules, not with external "301 moved
>permanently" + "Location:" redirects)
It's not the rewrite rules.  It's one of the reverse proxies.  It keeps locking up on that URL for some reason.

>Funnily enstage.o.o is not broken so taking the redirect config from the
>stage wiki might be the easiest solution.
>
>In case it helps - here's the telnet session confirming the problem:
>
># telnet en.opensuse.org 80
>Trying 130.57.4.24...
>Connected to en.opensuse.org.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>GET / HTTP/1.0
>Host: en.opensuse.org

Try again.  I have it working, at least for now.
 
-Matt