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I’m getting this problem as well trying to auto update to WP 2.6. I checked via phpinfo and safe mode is turned off on my server. Weird.

I also checked my php5.ini file and have safe_mode = Off there.

Any ideas?

Another vote for the above. It’s be a great feature to have built in to WordPress.

I’ve tried a few “solutions” in the past that never worked out for various reasons including the “WordPress Download Manager” plugin (which is out of date/broken…couldn’t get it to work), .htaccess files + web page logins (too confusing for some users) and paFileDB (which doesn’t restrict hot-linking and can’t deal with administrator-locked password accounts–i.e. shared logins). Two related additions to this request:

1) To avoid messing with .htaccess files and all that complication, it would be good if files could be encrypted or stored in a database or something so that they can’t be accessed by hot linking.

2) It would be nice to have a “locked” user that the administrator could control…so users will need a user name/password from the administrator, but not be allowed to change their password. Why? This feature would make a great “Press Center,” where I could post info for press that’s not ready for the public and search engines. Just send press an e-mail with name/login and they get the files in a few clicks.

BTW, I just noticed the “Drain Hole” Plugin. I’ll give it a try to see if it works…

This is happening for me as well. It also was causing a problem with blog posts I submitted using Flickr’s “Blog This” export to my WordPress blog. The Flickr entry would look great, but if I’d go through WPAdmin to add tags or categories, it would remove all paragraph breaks and generally wreak havoc with formatting. I followed moshu’s recommendation for turning off WYSIWYG option (even though I’m not doing any WYSIWYG editing) and it fixed the problem. Thanks!

When I try to create a sitemap, I get a “There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable.”

I followed the instructions for chmod on sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz files. I’ve tried 666 and 777 but no dice. Hopefully this will help narrow down what’s happening:

– I CAN get creating a sitemap to work if I do a “rebuild site manually” to https://www.mysite.com/blog/sitemap.xml
– However, this fails when I tell it to create the file at https://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml. Of course, this is where I’d prefer for the sitemap to be located since I’ll be indexing other files at a directory level higher than my blog.
– When I write files to https://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml, I get the error above and 0byte files (no updates from the blank files I placed there in the beginning).
– If I copy the working .xml/.gz files from my /blog/ directory to the root of my site, I still get the error on manually creating the files. The creation/mod times and files sizes are NOT updated after this step, so it’s not overwriting them.
– I’m trying to use the “complete” URL option (https://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml). Since my blog is a subdirectory of my main site, relative and auto detect won’t work for me.

Sounds to me like a permissions thing (obviously), but I’ve checked these files and they’re writable (666 or 777). Is there some other permissions issues I should be aware of, or any recommendations for fixing this?

Thanks.

vshare, have you confirmed that ssl://pop.gmail.com works? I haven’t been able to get this to work. Everything I’ve read about WordPress’ blog-by-mail support suggest it doesn’t support SSL, even if you list an SSL server for your POP server.

Have you tried this and gotten it working? If so, what other software have you installed to get this to work?

BTW, sorry to double-post here, but I noticed the comment from vshare in two threads. Since both threads come up in a Google search re: Gmail & WordPress posting, it’s worth updating both. CC: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/119392?replies=2 Would really like to know if anyone’s gotten this to work.

vshare, have you confirmed that ssl://pop.gmail.com works? I haven’t been able to get this to work. Everything I’ve read about WordPress’ blog-by-mail support suggest it doesn’t support SSL, even if you list an SSL server for your POP server.

Have you tried this and gotten it working? If so, what other software have you installed to get this to work?