I've done the appropriate downgrade, so let's see if it makes things all better.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:10 AM | Comments (43) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 How do I get rid of my trackback spam? The blacklist says that I don't have any, but it still appears in my blog. (It could be residue from trackbacks that I deleted while the evil upgrade was in place.)

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 04, 2005 12:38 PM

2 Not all better, yet not entirely all bad. I went to save the draft and it spit out the same error message yet saved my edited scribblings. (Were my tortured outpourings lost to the cyber-realm I would be crushed - or at the least dented.)

I haven't tried to publish yet, but if yesterday's pattern holds it will finally publish despite the error message.

Perseverence is my friend.

Oh, and Happy July 4th to you all, and especially you, Pixy, and thank you for all your efforts and care for this rambunctious yet lovable Munu.

Posted by: Debbye @ at July 04, 2005 12:39 PM

3 David - Have you done a full rebuild? That should clean it up.

Debbye - Foo. I'll have to fiddle some more. Six Apart are working on a fix as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 01:04 PM

4 I rebuilt, it didn't work. (See "Latest Trackbacks" on my site.)

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 04, 2005 01:17 PM

5 Thanks, Pixy, whatever you did got everything working again!

Posted by: Debbye @ at July 04, 2005 01:41 PM

6 Still not working on my end! Nope nope nope!
Same evil Error 500 message thingy!

Yuck!

Posted by: kyer @ at July 04, 2005 02:39 PM

7 I succeeded in posting, but not in getting rid of embarrassing spam.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 04, 2005 02:54 PM

8 Uhhhhh.... Pixy -- I'm still getting the Error 500 message when i attempt to update the entries. from yesterday.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 03:53 PM

9 (Tap) (Tap) (Tap)

PFffth PFffth

Is this thing on?

12:00 EDT cannot post.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at July 04, 2005 05:16 PM

10 Still acting up -- that 500 eror again.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 05:40 PM

11 David--I had that same stupid "site" showing up on my manage weblog page, so I went here and clicked on despam and changed the drop down to pings, and it despammed 'em and poof! Since I never got an email notification of em, I must thank you for making me check....

Posted by: Susie @ at July 04, 2005 06:22 PM

12 Susie: I already did that, but it was during the evil leap forward. I think I half-deleted my spam, or something. It looks like the trackbacks are not in the posts, but somehow are still in my "latest trackbacks". When I de-spam it comes up empty.

Also, I just got the error again.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 04, 2005 08:43 PM

13 I was getting the error. I just did a rebuild, and now have post I was trying to save posted 5 times in a row.

Time to delete some.

Posted by: owlish @ at July 04, 2005 09:17 PM

14 Error back again:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@blog.mu.nu and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Do we need to sacrifice some chickens or something?

Posted by: owlish @ at July 04, 2005 09:22 PM

15

I don't think chickens will be enough. I think we're looking at a goat for this one.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 10:23 PM

16 Okay, I've tried something else. If this doesn't work, the goats should be worried.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 10:34 PM

17 I've just deleted about 400 trackback spams, so see if it looks better now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 11:59 PM

18 I'm no expert in these things but it looks like the goats are safe and MuNu is alive again.

Three cheers Pixy Misa!

Yay! Yay! Bahhh!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at July 05, 2005 12:56 AM

19 Well, I discovered that in order to update/ping the postss put up during the recent insanity, it is necessary to repost them completely and delete the originals.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 05, 2005 01:47 AM

20 I have a process monitoring the system for those 500 errors, and we've had none in the past hour, so it's looking good. Fingers crossed, touch wood etc etc.

I've set CPanel to only do security updates automatically for now, until someone comes up with a permanent fix.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 05, 2005 03:08 AM

21 Oh yeah, you may need to rebuild your blog manually to clear everything up. Just don't everyone do it at the same time, or the server will go flooplik.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 05, 2005 03:09 AM

22 Yay Pixy!

I hope the goat-seller will give me a reund.

Posted by: Debbye @ at July 05, 2005 05:12 AM

23 My spam is gone!! Thanks Pixy!

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 05, 2005 07:56 AM

24 Just to be helpful, CPanel went and upgraded those modules again. I've downgraded them, again. I don't want to go back to running the server without any pretty admin tools, but I'm ready to whack CPanel with a stick.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 05, 2005 12:31 PM

25 I have a stick you can borrow...and it's a BIG stick...

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Just by accident I found out that it's an incompatibility between the updated versions of a couple Perl modules and Movable Type. The server is set to automatically update CPanel and related software, and it looks like that pulled the new Perl modules in, and that has caused the errors you've been getting.

I've found a solution on the MT forums and will be implementing it when I get home in a couple of hours. I'll have to see if I can restrain CPanel from updating those modules again.

Work-around in the meantime: Just keep trying. The 500 errors are more-or-less random, so unless it really hates you it will eventually work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:21 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

We still seem to be getting the occasional Error 500 (internal server error) from Movable Type. Things have improved now that I have shut down a couple of denial of service attacks (well, not so much denial of service as screwing up of service), but I can still error 500 coming up now and then in the logs.

Leave a comment here if you see this; I'll continue working on a permanent fix.

I'll just add that this isn't a problem with Movable Type, but with our server... Somewhere.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:40 AM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Test...

Test...

Posted by: JohnL at 05:33 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Bleeerp!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:56 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I am still having difficulty with making categories work. I click on the category link, and instead of seeing the posts within the category, i get one of those "Page cannot be found." Can anyone *clearly* explain how to make them function correctly? (Pixy? Hello?)

Posted by: Mark N at 02:08 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Test test. Post post.

Rare satellite imagery of Munuvia:

Cow Puppies

But because the animals will be difficult to ship to the U.S., the embassy plans to sell the cows and use the funds to buy Masai jewelry, which will then be displayed at a Sept. 11 memorial in New York City.

Some New Yorkers said they wanted the actual cows.

"The cows are the most amazing gift we received –- I mean, who else sent cows?" insisted Ed McCormick, a construction worker from the Bronx. "If those guys wanted us to have jewelry, they would have sent it. They wanted us to have cows. We should take the cows and raise them on a nice farm upstate and then send the cow puppies back to them someday."

The "cow puppy" concept might point up the reason New Yorkers would be better off with the beads, but no matter how it ends up, Manhattan residents are truly touched over the Masai gift.

(Wired News)

Update 1 - okay

Update 2 - okay

Update 3 - error

Update 4 - error

Update 5 - error

Restart web server

Update 6 - error!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:07 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I keep getting this error as i try to post to Rhymes With Right. Can anybody tell me what is going on, and whetehr the problem is on my end or at the server?

Updated by Pixy: AAAARGH!

(Sorry, I'm at work and we're having major computer problems here right now. Give me an hour and I'll be back.)

(At least that worked.)

(In fact, it seems much better now.)

(Let me know if you have any more problems. I blocked a spam/ping flood attack, which might have been causing the problem, but I'm not sure that was it.)

(There's still some worthless excuse for an organic life-form trying to DoS us, but he's too stupid to have any significant effect.)

(Test test.)

(Test some more.)

Posted by: Greg at 11:14 PM | Comments (49) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 That's a server error, but as far as I know the server is okay. Let me check.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 03, 2005 11:27 PM

2 I was able to make (and then delete) a test post on your blog. Are you still getting the error?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 03, 2005 11:31 PM

3 I'm getting the same error intermittently, but more no than go.

Posted by: Ted @ at July 03, 2005 11:33 PM

4 Here's the message I'm getting:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@blog.mu.nu and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.blog.mu.nu Port 80

Posted by: Ted @ at July 03, 2005 11:34 PM

5 Still getting it -- in particular on the one entitled "Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave?

Posted by: Greg @ at July 03, 2005 11:43 PM

6 Well, the post is now up, but I still get the error.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 03, 2005 11:45 PM

7 And my notification is the same as Ted's.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 12:00 AM

8 Hey!

I'm still getting that error. The only way I can post is to try to save, then rebuild. But, when I do it that way, I can't ping anyone.

I've been having that problem all day.

; )

Thank you!

Posted by: Christina @ at July 04, 2005 01:02 AM

9 Well that's not good.

I'm looking into it now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 01:57 AM

10 Hey, I just got one too! Just from posting a comment!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 01:57 AM

11 No I didn't, I'm just going mad...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 01:59 AM

12 Still getting it with my latest post, though the rebuild lets it through without notifying my trackback sources.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 02:02 AM

13 Okay, I've restarted the web server, now I'm going to try another test post.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:03 AM

14 I was able to post one entry but my 2nd got this error. No matter if I just tried to save or publish, I got this.

Posted by: Sissy @ at July 04, 2005 02:05 AM

15 If you click save or publish a couple of times, it'll save it that many times. If you then rebuild, it'll publish (and if you happened to publish it 3 times and got the error, it'll be on your site 3 times)

Hope that info helps...

Posted by: Sissy @ at July 04, 2005 02:10 AM

16 Is it also direly slow for everyone?

Just reading blogs is fine; posting comments is okay, but posting entries is slooooooooooooow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:23 AM

17 Okay, posting comments is pretty slow too.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:23 AM

18 I'm going to restart the MySQL server now.

No idea if that's the problem, but it's not the web server, so...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:26 AM

19 Done that. Poke poke...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:28 AM

20 Hmmm.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:28 AM

21 Grrr.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 02:38 AM

22 Is it happy now?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 03:05 AM

23 No.
Not very.

Posted by: Stevie @ at July 04, 2005 03:30 AM

24

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 03:40 AM

25 Okay, I can see there are still 500 errors coming up.

Still working on it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 03:49 AM

26 Still being quite nasty.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 03:50 AM

27 Just smacked another idiot with a stick. Let's see if that helps.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 03:54 AM

28 Just saw another error come up.

AAARGH!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 03:57 AM

29 How about now? Is it happy now?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 04:17 AM

30 I just got a comment and a test post to post, so it seems to be... okay.
(Kinda hesitant to say that right out. Didn't wanna jinx anything...)

Posted by: Stevie @ at July 04, 2005 04:22 AM

31

I'll keep an eye on it.

It was a combination of denial-of-service attacks causing the problem. Bah.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 04, 2005 04:41 AM

32 Nope -- same stuff still going on.

Posted by: Greg @ at July 04, 2005 03:56 PM

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Thanks to the estimable N. Z. Bear, we is now a community!

Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:23 PM | Comments (23) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I forgot to reinstall my crapfilter when I updated MT Blacklist, with the result being what you've probably seen - we got crapflooded.

This will be fixed today.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:08 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

OK, despite the fact that I have not actually received the revised proof, I feel safe in saying that

Alien Attitudes:
Alura Allen, Alien at Large
is officially
available for sale.

OK, fellow Munuvians -- it's time to spread the word. I'll appreciate all the publicity any and all of you can give to my efforts. This is, after all, something I have spent the last seven years of my life preparing for public release. Also, feel free to beat the rush and get yours today!!! The future will hopefully show your experience to be a lot like your having been one of the first people to have read the first book, being The Fellowship of the Ring, of The Lord of the Rings right after it was released for public consumption. Go ahead, read my book and tell me I'm wrong.

Posted by: Tiger at 05:49 PM | Comments (56) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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I'm confused. Permalinks to posts on my blog don't go to the individual post, they bring up several posts at once.

For example, this post from the 23rd.

This is probably due to something ignorant that I've done. I thought it had to do with my archive template, but now I'm not so sure.

Thanks for any help.

Posted by: Owlish at 04:09 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Okay, I didn't really want your ears, so now you can have them back.

I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new Truth Laid Bear Community called Life, Liberty, Property. We are all about those inherent rights and how to promote them in the blogosphere. If you are interested in being part of the community (quite helpful for getting traffic, if you're not the altruistic sort) come check out how to be assimilated join the group.

Posted by: EricC at 06:05 AM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Lend me your brains.

I have begun an open source project to compose a Constitutional Amendment in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in Kelo v New London. Its been through 2 revisions and we've made some good progress but it needs more input and some different perspectives.

If there are any Munuvian lawyers who would be willing to give us a little free legal critique it would be most appreciated.

Also, anything you can do to help promote the project would be wonderful. I don't have any delusions about ratification but if we can get it to congress and get it looked at an discussed we'll have accomplished something.

For more info here's the press release I have been sending out.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:07 AM | Comments (52) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I know we've discussed this before, but the sea of trackback spam is getting overwhelming. Is there some MT forum we can get onto to ask if there is an easy way to shut off trackback after (say) 1 month? I remember in the last discussion it had to be an all or nothing decision so if anyone objects they should say so now. I think a one month cut-off is enough, and while you may miss some links to the gems in your archives, it's a small price to pay. My count this morning was 72 trackbacks spams...and that's just from the weekend! I don't have the time nor patience to deal with it en masse.

By the way, do NOT buy diamond rings from Ideal Cut diamonds. Just saying.

Posted by: Simon at 01:24 AM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1. I follow Sitemeter's instructions perfectly for MT, but cannot rebuild the Sitemeter template. MT doesn't recongize it/see it.

2. I've inserted pertinent e-mails into my categories, but when I click on those categories, I get a "page is not found" notice.

Posted by: Mark N at 08:18 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Mark;

re: Sitemeter. Where are you putting the code? Because I don't see the raw code in your template anywhere. (or do you mean that if you put the code in, the template fails on rebuild and you have to take it out again?) When you put the code in your template - I'm assuming index template to start - are you hitting the save button at the bottom of the template page before rebuilding?

re: categories. I don't understand what you mean by putting emails into categories. Do you mean adding addresses to be notified each time a particular category is updated? And have you specifically enabled categories in your blog's configuration? (They're not turned on by default, if i remember correctly.)

Sorry if I'm sounding a bit dense here... It's not clear to me what you're trying to do.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at June 25, 2005 05:53 PM

2 Sorry, it's possible I didn't explain myself too clearly.

Regarding Sitemeter, I removed the code because it was not showing Sitemeter on my webpage.

Yes, I did hit the save button before rebuilding.

I followed Sitemeter's directions exactly. One of them involved creating a template and naming it "Sitemeter." In that template, we're to insert one of two parts of code. After inserting all the code in the proper spots, I then save and rebuild. Everything is rebuilt properly except the "Sitemeter" template." MT doesn't recognize that template or says that it does not exist.

*****

Regarding categories, if my category is "X" and I wrote a post on X, I would click the "Select" button in the drop down menu at the top of the post, and then select "X." The post would then be in that category.

I successfully placed a bunch of posts in their proper categories, BUT when I click the category link on the webpage, it gives me one of those "The page cannot be displayed" messages, leading me to think I botched something up in this extremely "user-friendly" coding that MT uses.

I didn't know we had to ENABLE categories. How to do that?

Posted by: Mark N @ at June 26, 2005 08:07 AM

3 Mark, to enable categories, from the main menu click on Weblog Config on the left hand side, then click on Archiving at the top of the displayed screen. Make sure you have "Category" archiving selected. That will create category archives each time you rebuild.

Posted by: Ted @ at June 26, 2005 04:39 PM

4 Mark;

Thanks for the clarification - it was your reference to 'e-emails' in your categories that threw me off. Did Ted's rundown of how to enable categories take care of that?

Note that, even with categories enabled, you'll need to put a tag in your main index template if you want your list of categories to show up (as links in your sidebar for example.) Let us know if that's an issue.

As far as your sitemeter issue, if you're getting that error, then the 'sitemeter template' hasn't generated correctly. Just to make sure.... after you create a new template, name it, and past in the 12 or so lines of code, are you saving the new template at that point? You'll have done 2 saves by the time you're finished. You can do just 1 rebuild at the end of the process to cover everything, but you must save after each step - you can't just do that once at the end.

After you've created the sitemeter template, go back to the Templates page of your blog's control panel and scroll down to the Template Modules section - you should now see an entry below that title that lists your new sitemeter module. NOTE! The name you gave the template MUST be
SITEMETER
Capitalisation is irrelevant, but the title must be that, and only that.

Next, insert the
<$MTInclude module="SiteMeter"$>
code into your main index template just before the final </body> tag, then save and rebuild.

That should do it. If it doesn't, post the exact contents of the error you get when rebuilding, & we'll see what else we can check.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at June 26, 2005 07:17 PM

5 Paul,

Thanks alot for the help. I'm guessing I didn't save twice. Sitemeter works now.

Now I'll work on those categories.

Posted by: Mark @ at June 26, 2005 10:27 PM

6 Glad that cleared it up, mark. One last little detail...

To get Sitemeter to be anywhere near accurate, you'll need to also add the code to your archive templates, so if people come to a specific post (that's off your main page) from an external link, Sitemeter will see that too.

I'd suggest putting it on your individual entry archive, your category archive, and your date-based archive. if you're using any other archive formats, you'll want to consider them as well.

Just paste the 1-line MTInclude into those templates just like you did for the main index template. That's the reason for having created the new template - you won't have to keep repeating the big chunk of code in each template, just 'call it' using the Include.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at June 26, 2005 10:57 PM

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I need help from the technologically gifted folks out there.

I want to be able to do two things: FIRST, I want to be able to create an RSS feed that will show the five most recent posts for several feeds. SECOND, I want to be able to put an XML button next to each blog on a blogroll so that people can subscribe to that blog's feed.

Both of these ideas are related to the SBC Aggregator site I'm working on. I have some definite ideas about what I want to do, but absolutely no clue as to how to do it. I THINK I've found a way to do the first, but not the second. And I DON'T want to have to hand edit my blogroll. I already thought of that ....

I appreciate any input you all can give me. I'm not totally new to this stuff, but I'm venturing out into uncharted (for me) territory. Anybody got a map?

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 01:13 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Jennifer, who is a lovely lady, has a sidebar that shows what book she's currently reading complete with an Amazon link and image that I imagine she cuts and pastes every week but I am curious how to do this thumbnail and URL link. Since I am a literature whore I want to add it on my sidebar, too. Anyone know the code?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 05:04 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1. My name at the top of my page is too small

2. The entire banner area is boooring.

I'd like to add some artsy Van Gogh-type of painting up there with my
name overlapping. I generally want to snazzy up the banner area, but no clue
how. (With Blogger, I could simply insert some jpeg in the code, and my name and
the image would overlap nicely. Can I do that with MT?)

Posted by: Mark N at 10:24 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fellow Munuvians, I have kicked off another link-whoring extravaganza carnival, a Carnival of Music, which has gotten some good traffic in its first three iterations (including two Instalanches! Yay!)

The Carnival is going on the road this week, to fellow Munuvian Owlish. Let's help him extend MuNu's world domination by making this a large and successful Carnival. Please send your submissions about anything musical here.

Our own Llamabutchers will also be hosting the Carnival at a yet-to-be-specified date in July, so check back at the archive page periodically to follow the Carnival's progress through the 'sphere. If you would like to host, please send an email to the submission address and indicate the date you're interested in.

Thanks!

Posted by: JohnL at 04:44 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)