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Jamin

Is there any timeline on the replication feature? Your plugin is the closest to what I’m trying to build on a site with the exception of system replication. I’d like to have a system inside my firewall that is used for content submission, page editing, plugin and theme testing, etc., that then gets pushed to a load balanced public site via SSH/SFTP using certificates so that there is no editing or logging into the public site. My users are not technical so I like the simplicity of publish/review/push.

This might make sense to me if it hadn’t been working for months and then just suddenly stopped. Furthermore, the plugin works for one blog on my network but not another, same VM on the same physical server. Same time, which is absolutely correct.

I’ve double checked though that the apps have R/W privileges and a callback URL is present and has been since I set up the app.

Any other ideas?

No resolution. I’ve submitted logs to what passes for Windows Live Writer support and gotten nothing back. It’s clearly something in the way that WP and WLW interact at the XMLRPC level, but I’m not skilled enough at coding to track it down to that level.

I moved my users to BlogDesk. Not a very feature rich implementation as far as formatting is concerned, but it seems to work really, really well, and they like the process for using it better than that of WLW. It seems to be lighter code, so it runs faster and produces far fewer errors than my WLW/b2evo combo ever did.

If you DO find an answer to this issue, I’d love to hear it, since some of my users would like to get a few formatting options back they don’t have with BlogDesk and they don’t like using the backend.

Thanks!

As I investigate this further, I’ve discovered that BlogDesk doesn’t seem to have any issues with posting to my WP blog space. It specifically asks for the blog-id of the various blogs, which none of the other clients I’ve tried do. It seems that clients are having an issue with the .htaccess redirection required to get to xmlrpc.php for my different sites.

What I discovered with WLW is that it IS connecting, and it is executing a number of ‘GET’ statements to pull information, but then it suddenly stops and I get the error message about logging in successfully with a blog account but not having a blog on this service. I don’t have any information in my apache error log, php error log, or messages. All I have is successful ‘GET’ statements in my access log.

I can probably convince my users to go with BlogDesk, but the lose a lot of the richer formatting capabilities WLW provides. Does anyone out there in WP land have any ideas?

This is the LiveWriter code from my most recent attempt:

WindowsLiveWriter,1.3872,Fail,00010,07-Sep-2010 20:12:03.969,"WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogAccountDetector+NoAccountsOnServerException: Error in the application.
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogAccountDetector.ValidateService()","   at System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e, Boolean needFileInfo)
   at System.Environment.get_StackTrace()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Diagnostics.LogFileTraceListener.Fail(String message)
   at System.Diagnostics.TraceInternal.Fail(String message)
   at System.Diagnostics.Trace.Fail(String message)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogAccountDetector.ReportError(Exception ex, MessageId errorMessageType, Object[] errorMessageParams)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogAccountDetector.ValidateService()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetector.AttemptRsdBasedDetection(IProgressHost progressHost, RsdServiceDescription rsdServiceDescription)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetector.DetectBlogService(IProgressHost progressHost)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Progress.ProgressWorker.DoWork()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Progress.MultipartAsyncOperation.DoWork()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()"
WindowsLiveWriter,1.3872,Fail,00011,07-Sep-2010 20:12:03.970,"WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetectorBase+BlogAccountDetectorException: Blog account detector did not succeed
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetectorBase.ReportErrorAndFail(MessageId errorMessageType, Object[] errorMessageParams)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetector.AttemptRsdBasedDetection(IProgressHost progressHost, RsdServiceDescription rsdServiceDescription)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetector.DetectBlogService(IProgressHost progressHost)","   at System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e, Boolean needFileInfo)
   at System.Environment.get_StackTrace()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Diagnostics.LogFileTraceListener.Fail(String message)
   at System.Diagnostics.TraceInternal.Fail(String message)
   at System.Diagnostics.Trace.Fail(String message)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.BlogClient.Detection.BlogServiceDetector.DetectBlogService(IProgressHost progressHost)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Progress.ProgressWorker.DoWork()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.Progress.MultipartAsyncOperation.DoWork()
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()"
WindowsLiveWriter,1.3872,None,00012,07-Sep-2010 20:12:11.198,"Creating a writable ribbon istream for C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Windows Live Writer\Ribbon.dat",""
WindowsLiveWriter,1.3872,None,00013,07-Sep-2010 20:12:14.871,"Creating a writable ribbon istream for C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Windows Live Writer\Ribbon.dat",""

The error “No Account Error on Setup” is bizarre for a couple of reasons. First, I know the account exists, I can log in with it from wp-login. Second, the same account works for the iPhone app and logs me just fine. Third, the error box that pops up when WLW tries to connect says not that the account doesn’t exist, but that the account exists and signed in but I don’t have a blog with this service. I don’t see anything else here that means anything to me, really, so if there’s something to point me to, let me know.

Thanks!

Forgive my ignorance here, I don’t know the internal workings of WP yet nearly like I do b2evo, so I may be asking a rudimentary question (I didn’t find anything about it in the Codex, however). I don’t find an RSD file in my setup. I have a wp-rdf.php file, which is the closest thing I see. I’ve grep’d the directory structure and while I find refernce to rsd_link in the default-filters and general-template php files, I’m not clear on what it’s doing yet, but those are the only relevant places I found that string.

I’d love to help with the iPhone issue, too, since I just installed the WordPress app on my 4.0.2 iPhone 4 and I’m able to connect to the first two test blogs I’ve been using. Still can’t connect via WLW, though.

One thing I haven’t found in the docs thus far is anything about logging mechanisms. I log my PHP errors, and I’ve got access and error logs setup for WP, but I’m not getting any errors in either of those spots, so if there’s something to turn on I haven’t found yet, please tell me and I’ll go digging myself. That’s my most tried and true way of learning a new system (break it, read the logs, Google how to fix the error message). I’m not trying to leech off anyone’s time, just so you know.

Well that’s great to know, as I had intended to expose my users to the iPhone app.

Just to be clear, when configuring LiveWriter, I should be using https://blog.tld.com/blog1/ as my URL, correct? That’s the way I had to do it for b2evo, but I know the API usage is different, and the XMLRPC files are quite different, so I’m double checking.

This isn’t supposed to be that tough, but I had issues with it on b2evo at first as well.

That’s what I thought, ipstenu, thanks for the confirmation.

So when it comes time to migrate the data out of b2evo, is there a clean and EASY way to get the data into the appropriate wp_1, wp_2, etc tables? I guess ultimately that’s what I’m trying to figure out. I did a test import, and everything was imported into the root site, which is not what I want at all.

I’ve seen some of your posts about hacking the database, and I’m not averse to doing that if I have to (I’m a systems/database guy, not a PHP coding guy) but would obviously prefer not to do so if there’s a “better” way.

Thanks again!

Good to know that it is supported.

I’ve already activated it for each of the sites in my network, including the main site.

Any other thoughts?