Throughout the term, we've had a couple of SPAM explosions. Call this the bane of Web 2.0. One issue raised by Juweria and Dean is how to stop the emails coming to you every time you get a comment. This seems to be the major irritant.
To stop emails, just go into your blog's detailed settings under feedback. About halfway down the page you'll find settings to control when you get an email for both comments and trackbacks.
We've been experiencing a blogging misconfiguration error when posting. The problem was fairly simple. Our rebuild system rebuilds the main page and a giant index of all posts. Now approaching 1300 posts for the semester, the system was timing out on the rebuild of the giant index and giving the misconfiguration error. Nothing was misconfigured. It was just taking too long.
The error received while tracking back was the first sign of this problem. Trackbacks come near the end of the rebuild process. Even with track backs off, the problem slowly progressed in scope as the total number of entries grew. At some stage after midnight last night, it became impossible to post.
Attempting a few test posts on different blogs convinced me it was not just an issue with one blog. I then noticed how long the posting was taking and considered the rebuild process. That's when the solution struck me.
update: Rosie has, quite rightly, asked what the fix was. Well, at this point, I am no longer rebuilding the complete archives list with every post. That shortens up the time to build enough that the process does not time out.
I think I have found the issue with the blog system and have a fix now. Here's a link to a previous entry on fixing this.
Re: Error saving blog posts in movable type (Praneeth's Blog)Chidamabaram, I guess most of us are getting the same error. You are right it actually publishes but it would be better if we would save it is a draft. Dr.Gibson said he is working on it.
The issue seems to be trackback autodiscovery. If you turn it off, you will be able to publish normally. Here's how to do it.
Some of you have been receiving an "Internal Server Error" message when you try to publish. As a result, you attempt to republish several times. As it turns out, the error message seems not to indicate a real problem. The original post actually publishes.
However, to be safe, I recommend clicking back and saving the post as a draft.
The issue began showing up about the time Jeff's blog had a legitimate problem that was causing his site not to work. This other problem may be due to server load.
Bud
We have been having strange errors posting lately. I'm testing to see what is up.
Jeff, have you changed the modules in your blog? It is suddenly not rebuilding. I edited your individual entries template to make it so at least the individual entries would publish, but the other archive templates seem broken. There is an error that says the blog rebuilder is not finding module 1210 or something like that. You must have a module that somehow does not exist.
This all seems to have begun after March 19.
Jeff, have you changed the modules in your blog? It is suddenly not rebuilding. I edited your individual entries template to make it so at least the individual entries would publish, but the other archive templates seem broken. There is an error that says the blog rebuilder is not finding module 1210 or something like that. You must have a module that somehow does not exist.
This all seems to have begun after March 19.
Jeff, have you changed the modules in your blog? It is suddenly not rebuilding. I edited your individual entries template to make it so at least the individual entries would publish, but the other archive templates seem broken. There is an error that says the blog rebuilder is not finding module 1210 or something like that. You must have a module that somehow does not exist.
This all seems to have begun after March 19.
Jeff, have you changed the modules in your blog? It is suddenly not rebuilding. I edited your individual entries template to make it so at least the individual entries would publish, but the other archive templates seem broken. There is an error that says the blog rebuilder is not finding module 1210 or something like that. You must have a module that somehow does not exist.
This all seems to have begun after March 19.