MikeJ

Computers and robots only do what they are told to. Computers and robots are built and programmed by humans.

It's the Spelling Gremlins. They get ahold of everyone.

Yea, I got denied. I also got an extra error when previewing: MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x8117198) Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1187. MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x8117198) print() on closed filehandle MT::SCode::OUTFILE at lib/MT/SCode.pm line 50. MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x8117198) print() on closed filehandle MT::SCode::OUTFILE at lib/MT/SCode.pm line 50. Something's not quite right yet in SCode land.

Just be aware, SSL secures the connection to the server, not the contents of the server. If you have a sensitive file that you need to have available via the web, you should also web protect the directory (using cPanel web protection, or manually doing it through your .htaccess file). If you need the file on the server, but not web published, just put it in your home directory somewhere other than public_html.

Good job. Thumbs Up

While possible, more often it's just random. Basically using addresses it knows are valid to improve it's chances of being delivered.

I would say almost definitely a spoofed virus email that got sent, and a not-so-well-configured virus program bounced it back to you thinking it came from you. I get bounces like that almost daily right now. Virus writers.

Well, that's not important. It just needs a place to write temporary files. I used an /mt/ folder underneath my tmp folder just for organization purposes.

Ahh.... I would have to say I never used MT-Blacklist, so I never ran into that issue. And sorry, didn't read the PM first. What you had would work as well. Most perl modules get installed in <MTDIR>/lib/MT/ I believe, but you could also check under extlib dirs for that blacklist .pm file. Honestly though, if you have the blacklist installed and working, and you currently aren't getting spam, I would recommend just sticking with that alone. It's less intrusive to posters.

It looks like something isn't quite right. Here's the code snippet I used in my templates if it helps: > <!-- Security Code Check --> <input type="hidden" id="code" name="code" value="<$MTSecurityCode$>" /> <img border="0" src="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTSecurityImage$>?code=<$MTSecurityCode$>"><br /> <input tabindex=3 id="scode" name="scode" /><br /><br /> <!-- end of Security Code Check --> Also, did you modify SCode.pm? I know there's at least one variable in there that needs to be modified: >my $tmpdir = "/home/your-cpanel-account/tmp/mt/";

The problem is there isn't anything wrong with that code. I cut and paste it, exactly as you had it posted above, into a dummy page and I don't get any errors. Something else in the page would appear to be causing the problem.

That's because the image itself has a small line around it. Put the image on a blank dark page with no CSS, and you will still see that border line... it's part of the image.

Yea (good thing I previewed before posting... like 4 posts came up while I was on the phone. ) Do the changes Jim mentioned and you should be golden. Thumbs Up

This simply means there's a syntax error in the PHP code within that file (which Thomas was sort of trying to elude to, as he was referencing within the file, not the the filename). "index.php" is a correct name for the file. The only way to correct it is to fix the code in the file. Without seeing the contents, we can't really help beyond that.

Couple of reasons, some of which I touch on in my blog ( www.silentcorner.com ). Movable Type is a decent package, but I'm not sure I like the direction they are going in (pay to get the good stuff), nor how they are getting there (hook people on to all the fancy functionality, than suddendly start to cripple their use of the software unless they pay up). The developers have a right to make money off their product, but MT just doesn't do enough for me to go that route. Besides, I had an interest in switching to open source anyway particularly for my personal site since I'm a supporter of the open source concept. WordPress is open source, and written entirely in PHP. It serves pages dynamically, which can be a plus or a minus depending on how you design your blog, but so far it seems to be very fast with generating pages as you can see in my blog (I have queries and seconds to generate the page listed in the footer). MT's drawback was for very large blogs... the rebuilds would end up being quite server intensive. I'm a bit of a hacker type (like to play with the code) so having open source is an advantage there. For ease of use, if you want a simple blog, I'd say WP is as easy as most of the "run your own" blogs get (as opposed to hosted blog publishing systems like Blogger and LiveJournal). If you are looking for a content management system (CMS), though, WP is a little less polished, and has only a fraction of the plugins available for MT currently (although I suspect WP will be getting a lot more in the near future as the plugins concept is brand new with WP introduced in the latest, still beta release . Everything before was done with less user friendly "hacks"). WP is still young, but I think we'll see it mature pretty quickly, especially with the influx of new users due to MT's changes. I know Lisa likes to add all kinds of additional bells and whistles and wants more CMS functionality, so she's been playing with TextPattern and ExpressionEngine, both of which look like fine packages, but not really what I'm looking for to use as my personal blog site. Those I would consider if I wanted to create a whole site (or sites), not just a weblog, with dynamic content.

GD.pm should already be installed (look in your perl modules listings in cPanel and you should see several GD:: entries). I installed SCode on my MT installation a couple months ago (I've since switched to WordPress) so if you catch me online in the evening, I could help walk you through it.

The 6.1 version of AWStats (TCH uses 6.0 currently) was just released on Saturday. Since awstats is maintained by the control panel (cPanel creates and maintains all of the individual config files for each site) on our servers, we can't just upgrade AWStats directly... the version that is running is patched to integrate with cPanel. However, I expect cPanel will release an update of AWStats integrated with their package in the near future.

I'm personally switching to Wordpress since it's opensource, and I only use it as a weblog. Textpattern has more CMS functions, but who's to say they won't pull an MT move (they even state in their forums they haven't decided how future licensing will work yet). Expression Engine isn't free (but at least they are up front about it). Even if you get it for free, I would bet you will have to pay for upgrades at some point in the future. It does look nice, but at $149+ I'd wait until I would actually need that much flexibility and support.

If you do decide to try out wordpress, this may be of some help: http://blog.carthik.net/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/

You would have to buy separate plans, or get a reseller account to use multiple domains to point to multiple sites (or subdomains). From the Acceptable Use Policy: Parking domains on a virtual account for the same website is still considered one domain. Addon domains (which is what you are asking for) is not allowed on virtual accounts. If you want to do subdomain.hosteddomain.com you can do that, however, as long as it's for your own purpose and you are not providing hosting for others that way.

You can continue to use the old version. They will eventually release a free version for 3.0 but it will only allow one author and up to 3 blogs.... and there's question about what else might be "crippled" in the free version.

Just to clarify (as Rick eluded to) why you can get 1800 emails... when your account is created, by default it will accept email to any address (*@example.com) sent to your domain and won't or delete anything... hence the reason :blackhole: for your catchall is a good idea.

Generally, any problems from weather (such as a sudden heat wave, or increase in temperatures) are going to be related to power. Such as everyone turning on their air conditioners causing a surge of demand on the power stations from the norm, and the power stations having trouble matching the change in demand. Although, I think in your case, Madmanmcp's response it more likely the reason.

That's an attempt to use one of PHP-Nuke's various vulnerabilities. I generally would recommend against using PHP-Nuke, but if you must use it, you can get a slight bit more of immediate security by modifying the version that cPanel installs using a fix posted here. You would be best served, though, to manually upgrade to the latest (ver 7.3 currently). PHP-Nuke versions through 7.2 are known to have multiple vulnerabilities. If you don't use PHP-Nuke, then you don't have to worry about requests like above.

On email forwards, every mail will get counted twice against your bandwidth. Once coming in to the server, then again as it leaves the server after it is processed by the forward. Unless you have a lot of attachments, though, email in general is pretty low bandwidth. (Edit: Apparantly TCH-Don typed faster than me. ) There is no way to redirect individual mailboxes without accepting the email first. The SMTP protocol (how mail is delivered on the internet) doesn't have a provision for allowing that. A couple other points to clarify, TCH servers do not have virus scanning on emails. The filtering that is done is via simple blocking of certain attachments that are most commonly used by viruses. Spamassassin is also available (although would only help with viruses if it thinks it's spam. ) There are scripts available for email notifications I believe, including one for Horde that a friend of mine is experimenting with. There are also, I believe, Windows notification programs that monitor via POP3 connection. And finally, as far as moving the domain, you should experience absolutely no downtime. For email being forwarded, they will simply migrate to being forwarded by the new server over a couple day period (just keep the old forwards active for a few days after migration). Any mailboxes you have hosted on the old service that you are migrating to TCH, you may have a couple day period where mail goes to both services. You would just have to check both mailboxes for a few days to make sure you get all of your mail. No mail would actually bounce.