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November 12, 2003

Geek Help, por favor

Not only is Simon having cookie problems, so is J over at Quibbles and Bits.

So, Geeks and Geekettes of Munuvia--how does one ensure that comments remember the commentors?

Posted by: Susie at 05:24 PM | Comments (157) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I've got this particular problem as well.

Posted by: Jim @ at November 12, 2003 06:57 PM

2 It's not working for me (a commenter) on cr.mu.nu either

Posted by: Jevon @ at November 12, 2003 09:59 PM

3 Works for me!

There's a bug in IE that makes it lose cookies for two-letter domain names. So try using cherrysramblings.mu.nu instead of cr.mu.nu.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2003 12:53 AM

4 Also, the comments-only page and the entry-with-comments page use two different cookies. One is shared across mu.nu; the other is local to the blog.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2003 12:54 AM

5 OK Pixy, that's great, but could I get it in English? What do I try as simonworld.mu.nu rather than sw.mu.nu??? What does the comments only and entry with comments page different cookies mean? Do I need to do something to my template?

All this talk of cookies is making me hungry.

Posted by: Simon @ at November 13, 2003 03:21 AM

6 Just go to simonworld.mu.nu rather than sw.mu.nu. You don't need to do anything.

Note that the "comments" links on your blog point to blog.mu.nu, while your permalinks point to your own blog. This is because we are using a single installation of MT (which is why Munuviana can show the recent posts for all the blogs) and I'm too lazy to set up symbolic links for the cgi directory for each munu blog. So the comments page, since it's always on blog.mu.nu, uses a common cookie for all munu blogs, but your individual entry pages use a cookie specific to your blog.

And if you use the two-letter shortcut, IE might eat your cookies.

Does that explain everything?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2003 04:40 AM

7 OK, I think I understand but now I'm more confused. If all of the comments are on the shared blog.mu.nu thingyjiggy, and they all share a central cookie jar, shouldn't any commenter on any one munu site be remembered on all munu blogs?

I tried going back to my blog at simonworld.mu.nu but it still seems to forget me when I do the comments.

Thanks for all the help.

Posted by: Simon @ at November 13, 2003 09:01 AM

8 Umm, I also just got sent this:

FYI, just looking at your home page on my system (Mac OSX, Mozilla) the content text is invisible, though I can see the hyperlinks.

Umm, que? Me no speaka this language.

Posted by: Simon @ at November 13, 2003 10:18 AM

9 What it means is that you've screwed everything up. Download Mozilla for your PC and take a look.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2003 02:12 PM

10 Madfish Willie's on the other hand is perfectly legible, it's just that the layout is messed up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2003 02:15 PM

11 OK, so that's bad. To fix it I'd go back and change, umm, something. I assume it was working previously. Is it maybe to do with the mildly distracting scrolling text?

Posted by: Simon @ at November 14, 2003 05:49 AM

12 No - I think you messed up your style sheet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 14, 2003 07:02 AM

13 The style sheet is very scary.

Posted by: Susie @ at November 16, 2003 02:45 PM

14 And very dangerous. Abandon all hope, ye who tinker with the style sheet.

Posted by: Daniel @ at November 16, 2003 03:20 PM

15 or not... I don't know what I'm talking about...

Posted by: Daniel @ at November 21, 2003 08:14 PM

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