That Old Feeling

I'm having a problem with comments similar to the one that Harvey reported the day before yesterday. Mine says this:

Invalid [] range "y-f" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/0-apr-credit-card-a.blogspot.com|007.sh|
00rapredittedit.finance4u.us|010.allineare.com|
014.guerredellastella.com|015.ambrato.com|
01pgnz1w.itarezzo.info|021c.pitri.be|
03.bruciarsi.com|030.allineare.com|036d250d.com|
04.guerredellastella.com|04c94314.com|
069.imparilo.com|07.accettazione.com|
095.ambrato.com|09c4a6c0.com|0adult|0cartoon.com|
0casino|0catch.com|0creditcardtoday.com|0hentai|
0manga|0printing.com|0sesso|0sex-toons.com|
0sfondi-desktop.com|0sfon at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 3098.

(I added breaks, of course.)

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at 01:50 AM | Comments (1288) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Comment proglem in Munuviana posts

I attempted to post a comment in the Minx Comments post. However, I seem to be MT Blacklisted. I'll post my question below, but any help with the other problem would be appreciated.

Umm, huh? Do I change my Main Index or the Master Archive Index? And I save them as a different name? My current file names are index.html and archive.html. I do NOT see an index.php.

Ehh, I created a brand spanking new template, file named page.entry containing the code above(CSS replaced with my own). Will that work?

Confused in Virginia.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 01:34 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

RSS Woes

Somebody broke our RSS feed. Personally, I blame the Llamas. Or the Joos. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Anyway, does any one know how to tweak an RSS feed so that:

a) it works
b) it's the full Monty (not just excerpts, but full)

?????

Posted by: Rusty at 10:10 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

CPanel Woes

It's not a big deal, but I finally got around to logging on to CPanel, and when I tried to use the File Manager I got the following error message:

[a fatal error or timeout occurred while processing this directive]

And I also got the following message under my trashcan:

Unable to change directory to /kei/home/demphist/.trash! You do not seem to have access permissions! (System Error: Permission denied)

When Jim first set up my account he gave me a plethora of usernames and urls, all of which looked sort of similar to those I generally use, but with slight variations. He eventually set up my blog url to the right spelling, but left my CPanel login name as one of the variants. That's OK, and I'm used to using it now, but I wonder if these misspellings are at the root of the File Manager error problem, somehow?

Posted by: Demosophist at 03:12 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Comment Error

Got this when trying to leave a comment at Drunken Wisdom:

An error occurred:

Invalid [] range "l-b" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/00rapredittedit.finance4u.us|010.allineare.com|
014.guerredellastella.com|015.ambrato.com|01pgnz1w.itarezzo.info
|021c.pitri.be|03.bruciarsi.com|030.allineare.com|036d250d.com
|04.guerredellastella.com|04c94314.com|069.imparilo.com
|07.accettazione.com|095.ambrato.com|09c4a6c0.com|0adult|0cartoon.com
|0casino|0catch.com|0creditcardtoday.com|0hentai|0manga|0printing.com
|0sesso|0sex-toons.com|0sfondi-desktop.com|0sfondi.com|0suonerie.com
|0teen.com|0toons.co at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 3098.

Posted by: Harvey at 07:05 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

File Manager?

I asked on the comments of a previous post, but where exactly is this "file manager" in the MT interface where I can view -- and manage -- my blog's files? Sorry if I seem obtuse but I really don't where this function is, but have seen others talk about using it.

Posted by: Rhodey at 01:55 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Deleted post still accessible?

At the request of the subject of one of our posts, we recently deleted a post from our blog database. But, while the post doesn't now appear in our Movable Type interface, nor in the monthly and category archives, it is still viewable by any sites that had directly linked to it, or by manually typing its direct URL.

The post in question is here: http://colossus.mu.nu/archives/186361.php

Is there a server cache that still may have the post in it or something? The person really wants this post deleted completely (and we don't have a problem doing so) so what needs to be done?

Thanks.

Posted by: Rhodey at 09:03 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

File Manager

OK, maybe I haven't been paying attention but when did File Manager under CPanel stop working? I noticed that my favicon.ico file is under angrygwn.mu.nu/archives instead of the root directory angrygwn.mu.nu, and figured I should make it available in the root since that is where convention says it should be. I got to file manager, and I get an error related to not having permissions. Weird.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 03:25 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Yet Another

Script kiddie at the Jawa Report.

Posted by: Vinnie at 12:36 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Sudden Parse Error?

I keep getting this error, preventing my site from loading:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/ace/public_html/skins/1/3c-body.php on line 46

I haven't changed the template. I was wondering if anyone else got it too, and how it should be fixed.

I checked that line of my template, and looked to make sure brackets occurred in pairs, but that's the limit of my source-warrior skills.

Seems okay to me.

Posted by: Ace at 10:45 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Minx Comments - Everyone Wins Except The Spammers

Here's a quick rundown on how to create your own Minx-based comments pages.

First, you need to change your comments links from, well, whatever they are now, to:

<a href="http://minx.cc/?post=<$MTEntryID$>">Comments</a>

Or something similar. http://minx.cc?post=XXXXXX is a link that works for any given entry to bring up that entry and its comments.

Well, it shouldn't work on unpublished entries. Let me check that...

Hmm. Well, that's not quite right. You can't see the post, but it gives you a comment form. I'll fix that.

...

Done.

Anyway, the template looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html><head>
<title>[posts][post.title][/posts] </title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://minx.cc/css/minx.css" type="text/css" />
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://minx.cc/scripts/showhide.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="center">
<div class="content">

[posts]<h1>[post.title]</h1><p>
[post.text]
<p>
[post.more]

<p class="posted">
Posted by: [post.authorlink] at
<a href="[post.url]">[post.time]</a>
</p>
<p><h1>Comments</h1>
<p>
[comments:here]
<p>
[include commentform]
[/posts]

[magic.pager]
[magic.stats]

</div>
</div>
</div>

<div style="clear: both;"> </div>

</body>
</html>

Got all that?

No?

Okay, let's take it a bit at a time.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

This tells the browser that the page is to be interpreted as XHTML. Whether it is valid XHTML or not depends on the template, but if you don't put this line in some funny things happen with the current stylesheet.

<html><head>
<title>[posts][post.title][/posts] </title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://minx.cc/css/minx.css" type="text/css" />
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://minx.cc/scripts/showhide.js"></script>
</head>

The HTML head section.

The title line just puts the title of the post as the title on the browser window.
The next two lines pull in the CSS (stylesheet) - replace this with your own CSS; and the standard show/hide comments thingy.

Which this page doesn't actually use, so we might as well remove it.

Anyway:

<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="center">
<div class="content">

The start of the body of the page. The DIVs depend on your stylesheet; you should be able to get an idea of what to put here by looking at your existing comments page.

[posts]

The start of the posts block. Post-related tags are only guaranteed to work inside a posts block.

<h1>[post.title]</h1><p>

Display the title, nice and big.

[post.text]
<p>
[post.more]

Display the post body, then a paragraph break, then the extended post (if there is any). If there isn't an extended post, your page should still look nice and tidy.

<p class="posted">
Posted by: [post.authorlink] at
<a href="[post.url]">[post.time]</a>
</p>

Show that "Posted by" line.

<p><h1>Comments</h1>
<p>

A line that says "Comments" in nice big letters.

[comments:here]

Put the comments here. (Hey, this stuff is easy!)

[include commentform]

Include the comment form.

[/posts]

Don't forget to close whatever you opened!

[magic.pager]

You only really need this if you are going for paged comments, which don't work right now anyway.

[magic.stats]

Show performance statistics. You don't really need this at all... But it's cute.

</div>
</div>
</div>

<div style="clear: both;"> </div>

</body>
</html>

And close everything else. Yay!

Easy, huh? All you need to do is save this as a new index template called page.entry... And wait for me to fix things so that Minx looks for the page.entry template instead of the mxEntry template. And viola!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:36 AM | Comments (347) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A Vote Against Spam

I think I can stop spam dead by turning off the Movable Type comments and replacing them with the Minx comment system.

Two drawbacks:

1. Minx doesn't rebuild your blog, so the comment count won't update. This will get fixed soon; it already tracks which pages need to be rebuilt, it just doesn't actually do it.
2. Minx doesn't send you notification emails.

Oh, and:

3. Minx comments by default don't look like your blog. They look like, well this, for example. But you can edit the templates and change it to use your existing stylesheet.

Give me a day or two to tidy things up and post some instructions, and we should be able to kick this spam addiction for good.

The problem is, everyone needs to make the switch so that I can completely switch off MT comments completely, because MT comments leak (at least on our ancient version).

I should be able to do something to globally switch everyone over, which just leaves you to set up your own custom comment-page templates (which I can help with).

What do you think?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:23 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Apology

For whatever reason, I'm getting comment spam on something I posted way back in December. Please feel free to delete it.

I don't know why that particular post is getting spammed, but I guess it's happening to a lot of us.

Posted by: Groovyvic at 11:28 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Summer Of Spam

Got no less than 380 spam comments between 7/28 and 7/31. I was away for the weekend and when I got back...egads!

For the time being I'm just shutting down comments on my site. I can't deal with it right now. Looking forward to Minx. Will keep an eye out to see how it's coming along.

Posted by: Gary at 11:20 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Spam Attack

I have been getting slaughtered with spam attacks lately.

Today I have 55 spam comments to delete.

Is there a way to delete all 55 at once using the MY Blacklist, or do I have to keep doing them one by one?????

Any help, please e-mail me at kotgd AT yahoo DOT com.

Thanks!!!!!

Posted by: Old Cloots at 01:40 AM | Comments (35) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

IP Banning

If you're into IP banning, Trey Givens and I compiled this list of IP addresses of comment spammers who hit our blogs over the weekend:

58.140.201.14
66.139.76.153
202.73.178.46
61.157.96.36
221.169.51.189
64.147.188.150
213.243.179.177
203.160.1.37
87.207.42.43
61.0.39.6
211.118.218.249
222.104.78.39
85.33.240.178
201.242.178.164
210.125.95.92
150.176.202.5
61.106.76.244
216.207.123.200
84.110.233.248
84.110.228.120
200.142.202.140
202.181.236.51
217.219.128.69
202.75.128.24

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at 04:41 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Wups

Sorry about the crappy performance there. I'm copying all the accounts across to the new servers in advance of the move, and when CPanel got to my account, which is, um, somewhat large, it went bananas and drove the old server into the ground.

I'm really starting to dislike CPanel.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:36 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

New Comment Thingy Banning

I've been ordered by Rusty to ban some ne'er do-wells, however, they're still commenting. With the same IP address that I banned.

Does the new comment thingy recognize the IP banning list in MT?

Posted by: Vinnie at 06:26 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Looking for help

Pixy is snowed with server issues. Does someone else in Munuviana know how to dig the side bar out of the works? I realized that not only are my blogrolls gone, but my catagories, most recent posts, most recent comments, hosted by, designed by etc are gone as well. I do not know how (and am smart enough not to attempt) to do any digging where the info probably resides. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Phin? Whatsakyer? anyone?

Posted by: GM Roper at 12:26 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Ace is down

thatisall.

Posted by: Vinnie at 09:53 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)