kgoeller

I have seen the same behavior, but am not using Spam Karma (although will be looking to install it). Just over the past day, I’ve received about 200 spam postings, most from an online poker ad. I have a secured blog, comment moderation on, only registered users can comment, no email-based commenting enabled, no unknown registered users. Something is definitely defeating the security protocols and it’s causing me all kinds of headaches. My readers aren’t seeing them because all comments are moderated, but my inbox is filling up with comment moderation requests.

KG

Pezastic,
In the readme file, it gives a set of code that you need to put on the page where you’d like people to subscribe. You can create a separate page, or just put the tiny little form on the sidebar menu of the blog (which is what I did).
Then, users choose to sign up by entering their email address in the form and clicking “sign up.” They are sent a confirming email containing a link (see my earlier message), and when they click that link it confirms that their email is valid. At that point, they are subscribed.
I’ll be shortly posting the changes I had to make to the code to get that confirmation link to work, though, so stay tuned — they weren’t huge, but I could NOT get the confirmation to run without it.
Hope this helps!

I’ve gotten the plugin installed and it looks fine BUT there’s a glitch. When I tried to subscribe myself, I receive an email with a verification URL in it. That URL is generating a “404 – File Not Found” error on the server.
The URL being generated is:
https://webct.bucks.edu/dl/wp/maillist/conf/1,a6adf23363329e7fe27741d6209bd94b
This looks correct, as far as the wp/maillist directory. There is no conf directory under maillist (and no directions to create one in the readme file for the plugin), so I’m not quite sure where to go from here in debugging this one.
Any help??
Karen

SuperSpiker,
Actually, the categories that do contain posts are not all showing up on the sidebar list. That was one of the first things I checked.
Prara,
I will check those settings — thanks!
Karen

When I try to do anything involving post.php (such as posting a new post, replying to an existing post), I get a “Server not found or DNS Error” message in IE, and a “Doc contains no data” error in Netscape or Mozilla.
The URL is https://www.bucks.edu/distance/wordpress/index.php
Thanks!

TG, Great idea, but I’ve checked the code for includes and found that all of the referenced files exist. I haven’t traced THROUGH all of those files to see if any buried requires might be missing, though. I’ll take a look tonite.
However, I’d expect to at least see an error message generated if that was the issue (like the ubiquitous “Cannot open required file” message PHP throws).

More info on this problem to help with diagnostics….
I’ve definitely isolated the problem to wp-admin/post.php. I’ve also upgraded to last night’s nightly, with no progress on the issue.
Within post.php, I added a print statement at the beginning of the file, and that print statement echoes out to the browser correctly when I access the file. The rest of the output is then blank. Without the print statement, or with it commented out, the blank “document contains no data” condition continues to be returned in all browsers.
So it seems pretty clear that post.php is encountering some issue that is causing it to return no data from its processing (including no header). I find it difficult to believe that I’m the only one seeing this issue!
As of now, I’m dead in the water with this implementation, so would love to hear any thoughts on how to proceed further.
Thanks!

Allusion,
Tried ALL of your advice. Now I’m getting some even odder results.
Turning off “friendly” error messages didn’t really help in IE, or tell me anything more/different than previously.
Doing the same in Netscape, however, now generated a “document has no data” error message.
Firefox loads a blank page or just reloads whatever page I was previously on, but doesn’t generate any error message.
I’ve tried directly accessing wp-admin/index.php, post.php, profile.php and edit-comments.php.
Profile.php generates a form that looks right and “seems” to act correctly, although it returns me to the wp-admin index page that won’t display. Same thing with edit-comments.
So it seems that there is a terminal error of some type with post.php, but I can’t see anything in the code that might be triggering it.
K.

sounds like it could be a cache problem — try clearing it and then hitting it again in IE. We see that in a few applications when rebuilds look to a slightly different URL or ticket, but the browser doesn’t properly release the old one.

2fargon,
Unfortunately, I’ve already tried that and it didn’t work. The problem I’m seeing with the files in the wp-admin directory is NOT the same problem as I had in the main blog directory.
When I try to access wp-admin/index.php or wp-admin/post.php, I’m getting “cannot find server or DNS error”s.
So…. any other ideas?
K.

(Same poster as above, but now registered.) I’ve gotten past that first issue by doing a complete re-install of WP, and then reconfig’ing the webserver to accept index.php as a default doc. This time it worked, for some reason — possibly because I knew to do the commenting out before trying the install? HOWEVER, there is one critical piece still not working.
When I log in as admin, I see the “main” screen (has My Weblog across the top in a gray bar). I see the first placeholder post and comment added as part of the install process. But …
1. Any adminstrative options (such as “My Profile” — where you can change passwords) don’t appear on this screen. All that’s on the sidebar are “links, calendar, search, archives, other and meta” — so this doesn’t sound like the correct page to be displayed on first login as admin. Is it? If so, how do I get to those other admin options?
2. The links on the main page to “Edit This” and the Login link (under Other in the sidebar) don’t work. They return a “Cannot find server or DNS error” page. They are both pointing to pages in the wp-admin subdir. I’ve tried changing the permissions on that directory and on the files in it, thinking that might be the problem. I’ve also tried typing the direct URL to the files in that directory, and the webserver simply will NOT serve them.
Currently this is a Netscape server on Tru64 Unix (we’ll be migrating to a new platform shortly and it can’t be soon enough for me!). WP version 1.0.2.
Thanks for any pointers that can help me figure this out!
Karen