Outage in HUIT

HarvardSites Loading Issue

Resolved Minor
October 30, 2025 - Started about 10 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Incident Report

HUIT is investigating an intermittent issue affecting access to some (less than 50) sites running on the HarvardSites platform. As of this notice, this issue is only impacting individuals who are on Harvard campus networks and visiting a bare domain. A suggested temporary workaround is to advise the user to add “www.” to the url. e.g. www.huit.harvard.edu
Components affected
HUIT HarvardSites Drupal

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RESOLVED about 8 hours ago - at 10/30/2025 07:17PM

The issue impacting some university websites has been resolved.

Please contact the HUIT Service Desk if you continue to experience issues loading websites - (617)495-7777 or email ithelp@harvard.edu

INVESTIGATING about 10 hours ago - at 10/30/2025 05:20PM

HUIT is investigating an intermittent issue affecting access to some (less than 50) sites running on the HarvardSites platform.

As of this notice, this issue is only impacting individuals who are on Harvard campus networks and visiting a bare domain. A suggested temporary workaround is to advise the user to add “www.” to the url. e.g. www.huit.harvard.edu

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