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Make it much easier, by default I think that WS_FTP is set to default and since you don't know how to change modes I doubt that's changed. Just upload the distribution (the tar gz -- if you downloaded the zip go back and download the tar gz) Upload that to your public_html folder, login to cPanel and open the file manager, click the file and click extract contents. Voila all done now you just need to edit mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi

Change CGIPath from http://www.domain.com/movabletype/ to http://www.domain.com/mt/

Welcome welcome

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Yep I have it installed. I can't remember whether I had to get some modules installed but put in a ticket at the help desk and they install almost any module within reason!

Its 12/25 here so Merry Christmas (or Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah)

As for me, Total Choice Hosting is not where it's at if I do not get PHP5 really really soon. I need a date when the rollout will begin before new year or I will change my host. BTW, I also need mySQL 4.1. If you do not want to change all servers, please change one or two and move my account over. I can do without c-panel. Just give me SSH and FTP and I manage. But I can't do any longer without PHP5. I'm having thousands of lines of code written for PHP5 already, just waiting for you to upgrade. I really do not wish to leave, since uptime, service and everything else has been perfect. But this has become a non-negotiable. Lars Gunther <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I believe that PHP 5 isn't the most stable of platforms as yet. I don't believe many hosts has upgraded yet. When we just upgraded to 4.3.10, it broke my UFM Mail form so that kinda got me worried (until I found the fix yay!) and I really don't want that happening again....

Ahh I'm happy I saw this, I was wondering why it wasn't working. Thanks !!

Movable Type 3.14 Released Upgrade strongly recommended

If you do not wish to purchase a license to run MT 3.x I would recommend you upgrade to MT 2.661.

OK we have the plugin. MT Approval as its called. We have as yet just sparse installation instructions but I say this is an important install. I have installed it and have yet to be spammed today MT 3.1 is required! Put this into your plugins directory. Once you do, you will have a template tag available to you. That tag is <$MTApprovalHash$>. Put this tag into your Comment Preview Templates - Comment Preview and Comment Error. For those of you with newer templates who use <$MTCommentFields$> integrate MT Approval via the interface provided You will need to remove the post button from your Individual Entry Archives and/or your comment listing template. This is very much an emergency release to help people cope with the comment spam so more updates to follow. Keep an eye on Planet MT as Chad will announce it soon perhaps with more information!

nope Mark's plugins are not it, I've been talking with him about his plugins and hacks. They are apparently do work but like he says himself if mass implemented they are useless because its just a few simple tricks and a spider can easily parse through them.... The plugin I'm talking about is far more interesting and may make it near to impossible for a spambot to automatically hit commentscripts.

Well done on figuring it out BTW you might want to check out this topic And two great resources for MT users are http://www.learningmovabletype.com and (my own ) http://www.movalog.com/

There's an excellent plugin that will be released later today that will help combat spambots directly hitting mt-comments.cgi (the comment script), keep an eye on Planet Movable Type http://planet.movalog.com/

Wow scary stuff, thank god I use Firefox !

Yep with MT, spammers are directly hitting mt-comments.cgi and cycling through post ids in the exact same way. The only reason why MT is going down and causing problems is because of the bug in MT that is causing *everything* to be rebuilt every time a comment is posted!

Yep ! Like I said before, the stuff Elise outlines is the best we can do at this point but none of it is really any use now.

I'm actually not sure about this thing about TCH going in and changing user's configs around. I did suggest it last night but on careful consideration I take it back. Like Lisa said things for newbies are hard enough without this complicating stuff up. Also its also been found out that this re-naming isn't that useful anymore. Elise's entry above although highlights the best ways comment spam can be combatted, a lot of them are becoming useless. If anyone is a member of the ProNet, read the CommentThrottle thread, there are interesting ideas springing up and I'm working with some devs on the best way to battle comment spam. For those that have MT, install MT-Blacklist and perhaps set everything to block, nothing to moderate... Moderation is what is causing the problem, alternatively just delete or chmod mt-comments.cgi to 000 for today. 6A are working damn hard to get those patches out and hopefully once they're out the problem will be fixed and some plugins also released to up the armour.

The folks at 6A are working very hard (believe me I have them on IM) on patches etc. while the folks on the Professional Network of 6A are busy thinking up ways to further beat the comment spammers. MikeJ, the best ways are highlighted in Elise's post above. Beyond that I'm not sure what else can be done, I've spent the better part of today trying to find stuff out but hopefully if things from ProNet go into motion there'll be some interesting stuff

Yeah, it needs to be relative paths..See the tutorial Elise and I wrote on it (on Elise's page, the code is formatted incorrectly)

The SCode plugin is a good one, it does work on TCH servers because I used to use it until I learnt of the problems it created (accessibility wise only). The only time it is effective is against bots. I'm not sure whether or not I would recommend its installation. Its upto you, the problems it creates are things to do with people not being able to see/enter the codes -- I've faced this a lot -- but it may offer some benefits against the spambots...

Six Apart have released some posts and information about the problem. Read more here

I've found it to be rather effective if implemented correctly. It isn't just a matter of re-naming the script because then spammers can scan the mt.cfg file and get the name again. You will need to re-name the script and then implement protection of mt.cfg

OK I've been working with Elise Bauer and a few members on the ProNet digging up links and trying to understand why comment spam on MT blogs has suddenly increased. We are still not sure how exactly it is happening, the entry above has been updated with some new techniques, the important one is outlined here I suggest it is implemented

Yep it looked fine to me too, just one thing to remember, the CSS and markup changed dramatically from IPB 2.x to 3.x perhaps that's whats causing the problems -- though I didn't notice any!