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Only .US domains are affected, because I believe it is the only top level domain (TLD) that the U.S. government has authority over. This is not really news - .US domains were never allowed to be registered by proxy. TCH's domain registration agreement even contains the clause that bans them: The only reason people are surprised by sudden enforcement of this provision is because they didn't read the fine print.

Thanks for the compliments, and welcome to the forums! There's a lot of great people here at TCH who work hard to provide the best possible service - all the way up to the top!

Welcome to the forums, Drub! I'm using Mozilla Firefox with WinXP Home and my CPanel loads fine. If your CPanel consistently loads slow specifically with Mozilla and WinXP, that would suggest to me that maybe there's a config setting out of whack in the WinXP install of Mozilla, but it's difficult to know for sure.

Welcome to the forums, Rich!

Welcome to the forums, April! I still use Outlook Express for a few reasons. Echoing the advice already given here, if I had to switch to another e-mail program, I'd definitely look at Thunderbird first.

Yes - Select Tools, Internet Options on the Internet Explorer menu. On the "Advanced" tab, scroll all the way down to "Security". In this section is a check box for "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed".

There's a Microsoft KB article on this issue. "View Source" can quit working when there are too many files in your Temporary Internet Files folder. The solution is to delete all of the files in the Temporary Internet Files folder.

There's a second mail link that I think may be the real culprit: > <p> <b>The next meeting of the Board of Directors is on 19 April 2005, 7pm at Express Personnel in Caldwell. Contact <!--webbot bot="JBOT" tag="p" startspan s-class="SpamStop" clientside Preview="Ray Crabtree" s-to="raycrabtree@fiberpipe.net" s-subject="Directors' Meeting" i-typelink="0" u-link="%52%61%79%20%43%72%61%62%74%72%65%65" --> <script language=javascript> <!-- // This code generated by http://WebsUnlimited.com document.write('<a h' + 'ref="' + 'mail' + 'to:' + 'raycrabtree' + '@' + 'fiberpipe' + '.' + 'net' + '?subject=Directors' Meeting" >'); //--></script> Ray Crabtree<script language=JavaScript> document.write('</a>'); //--></script><!--webbot bot="JBOT" endspan --> In the actual javascript, this part of the first document.write command is invalid code and won't run: >'?subject=Directors' Meeting" >'); The apostrophe in Directors' is being picked by the javascript to end the string, rather than just be a character to be output. It needs to be escaped (prefixed with a "\") or removed. You'll probably need to fix this in the webbot comment: >s-subject="Directors' Meeting" Perhaps this would work? >s-subject="Directors\' Meeting" Hope this helps...

I have MySQL Administrator installed here at home - it's geared towards managing a MySQL server. Many of the tools it provides are not usable by you on TCH's SQL servers, because you won't have sufficient permission to use those functions. Depending on what you're wanting to do, the MySQL Query Browser may meet your needs better (and it's also made by the people who make MySQL). Before you can connect to the MySQL server with any program, you have to give yourself (your home PC) permission to do so. In your CPanel, go to "MySQL Databases". Near the bottom of the page is a section titled "Access Hosts". Enter your home PC's IP address then click the "Add Host" button. (If you're not sure what your home IP address is, go to whatismyip.com in your browser.) In whatever MySQL client program you use, the hostname will be your (TCH-hosted) domain name, and the port is 3306 (which should be default).

I'm not sure what you mean by "where this robot might belong", but the UserAgent of "Technoratibot/0.6" indicates to me that it is probably Technorati's web-crawling bot.

It looks to me like you should delete this entire line of code: ><strong><?php the_author() ?> wrote this <?php inner_time_of_day(abs(strtotime($post->post_date))); ?>:</strong>

Tim - I was already seeing two closing two div tags at the spot you're indicating: ><div id="powered"> Powered by<br /><a href="http://www.movabletype.org">Movable Type 3.15</a><br /> </div> </div> </div> <div id="center"> <div class="content">

I believe the following changes will get your page back to something resembling normal: 1) CSS cosmetic change - This is purely a suggestion - your sidebar column is too wide. In your stylesheet, change the widths as I have indicated in the #left and #center styles: >#left { float: left; // width: 300px; width: 220px; background-color: #FFFFFF; overflow: hidden; } #center { float: left; // width: 440px; width: 480px; overflow: hidden; } This will narrow the sidebar column, and widen your main column to compensate. The following changes should fix the display problems in your template: 2) Opening div tag missing for calendar - ><div id="left"> <div class="sidebar"> <!-- Added missing beginning div tag for calendar --> <div id="calendar"> <table summary="Monthly calendar with links to each day's posts"> 3) Opening div tag missing for sidebar text just after calendar- ></table> </div> <!-- Added missing beginning div tag for sidebar text --> <div class="link-note"> Email: mythusBOGUSmage (at) mythusBOGUSmage (dot) com<br> I think these changes should take care of the major problems you're seeing. Hope this helps...

Owatagal is correct - although most of my response in that thread would not apply to you. You do need to do this: The rest of my response in that post is specific to using Excel (or some other program) to connect to the database through an ODBC driver. Most MySQL front-end clients (such as MySQL-Front or YourSQL) do not use an ODBC driver, so you don't need to install one. Everything else you need to do would be done within MySQL-Front. You'll need to set up the MySQL server name (which is just your TCH domain name), MySQL username, MySQL password, and possibly the MySQL database that you wish to use when you connect to the MySQL server in MySQL-Front. If you have not done so already, you'll need to create your database, create a MySQL user, and add that user to your MySQL database in CPanel / MySQL Databases (you will not be able to do this from MySQL-Front). Hope this helps...

After visiting the first site, the other two sites probably did not attempt to create a pop-under window. These scripts set a number of cookies to regulate how often the pop-under ads are served - they are not served on every page request. You won't see the embed tag just by looking at the HTML source code, because it is located in a linked javascript (and the link to that script is itself written by a javascript). As long as it works, I doubt that the advertisers care that they "should" be using object tags. I've now looked at all three site links Bellringr provided. They are all using the same code (the same identical script from the same site) to create the pop-under windows.

I did a little digging on the Firefox extensions web site - both extensions are written by the same author and are the same extension (more or less):

To my knowledge, the hosting company has no bearing on search engine ranking. There is an aspect to this that could affect search engine listings if you're not careful: When your site is transferred to TCH, you should leave the sites on both hosts operational at least until DNS has fully propogated. If a search engine attempts to crawl your site after you transferred your site to TCH, but before DNS has propogated, the search engine will try to crawl the non-existent pages on the Avidhosting site. That's the only thing I think you should be aware of.

I believe the Firefox extension that TCH-Raul is referring to is the Flashblock extension. The Flashblock extension does put a place-holder where a Flash file would normally appear. On the snopes dot com web site I looked at, the 'embed' tag that the Flash file loads into is an area 1px x 1px in size. I don't think you would see the Flashblock place-holder since it is in such a tiny area - I'm not sure if this is a good thing, a not-quite-so-good thing, or if it even matters. As noted by other posts in this thread, there's a number of ways this issue can be addressed. Each has its good and bad aspects - you'll have to decide for yourself which method works best for you.

Bradley - If the Help Desk was not able to get the plugin working for you, you may want to re-download the plugin and try it again. WP-Cache v1.5.2 was released *today*, addressing the issue that you're experiencing:

I've looked at the code at the snopes.com web site. The javascript is some nasty code (but I'll spare everyone the gory details). The script on the page loads and runs a second javascript from media dot fastclick dot net. I was able to capture a copy of that second javascript's code to examine for myself. To get around Firefox's popup blocker, the second script writes an 'embed' tag into the page that loads a Flash file (from cdn dot fastclick dot net). The Flash file contains code in it to open the pop-under window. Firefox's popup blocker does not stop this window from opening, because the popup blocker is not looking at windows opened from Firefox plugins such as the Flash plugin. A preference was added to Firefox to control windows opened by plugins, but this preference is not visible by default. To create this preference in Firefox, go to the "about:config" page (enter about:config in the address bar). Right click in the window where the values are listed and select "New", then "Integer". Enter "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" for the preference name (without the quotes), then click "OK". Enter "2" for the preference value, then click "OK". The new preference should take effect immediately - it should not be necessary to restart your browser before the preference will work. The privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins preference can take one of four values: 0 = Allow Popups From Plugins 1 = Limit Popup Windows From Plugins (to dom.popup_maximum, even with popup blocker disabled) 2 = Block Popups From Plugins 3 = Block All Popups From Plugins (including white listed sites) A good site to test the preference on after creating it is liquidgeneration dot com. If you use the Adblock plugin for Firefox, it looks like it would be a good idea to block fastclick dot net. Users who never see pop-under windows may have ad-blocking software that is blocking fastclick dot net and other advertising domains that may be hosting this code, may not have the Flash plugin installed, may have javascript disabled, etc. Links: - Bugzilla bug 176079 - "popup blocking does not stop Flash from opening windows" - Slashdot article: "The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad" Hope this helps...

Like TCH-Bruce, I don't see anything in the docs indicating that any other variables are available. Specifically, with regards to %to% - that is a piece of information you already know and thus should not need a variable for (it is the same e-mail address that the auto-responder is being set up for).

It sounds like you tried to double-click the files to open them, which won't work unless you have Perl installed on your machine, or have the .pl file extension associated with a program. The files are plain text files - you should be able to edit them in a text editor. You need a text editor that understands the difference between Windows and Linux style line breaks in the files though - Notepad generally won't cut it here. I use EditPad Lite (free) myself. If you've uploaded the scripts to your server, you can also go into your CPanel's File Manager, browse to the directory where you uploaded one of the files, click on the name of the file, then click "Edit File" in the right-hand window.

I've always chalked that (and the multiple listings of the same modules) up as an oddity of CPanel.

Local Site Path is the base filesystem directory where MT will write its index templates (such as your weblog's home page). The lowest level directory you should set this to is /home/cpanel_name/public_html, because that's the lowest level directory that the web server can serve pages from. Site URL is the URL that you would put into a browser to display the directory named in Local Site Path. /home/cpanel_name/public_html = http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/'>http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/, so again at a minimum, you'd need to enter http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/ (with the trailing slash) in the Site URL box. If you wanted your weblog to be based in a subdirectory (such as /blog), you would modify both the Local Site Path and Site URL fields to reflect that: Local Site Path: /home/cpanel_name/public_html/blog Site URL: http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/blog/ Generally, it is not recommended that you set Local Site Path to the same directory where your MT files are installed. This will cause MT to mix the MT application files with your weblog's html pages in the same directory. Local Archive Path is the base filesystem directory where MT will write its archive templates (such as category archives or individual entry archive pages). Most people use a subdirectory of the Local Site Path such as "archives" to place these pages in (such as /home/cpanel_name/public_html/archives). Archive URL is the URL that you would put into a browser to display the directory named in Local Archive Path. /home/cpanel_name/public_html/archives = http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/archives/'>http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/archives/, so you'd enter http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/archives/ in the Archive URL box (and this setting should also have a trailing slash). If you chose to configure MT to be in a /blog subdirectory, and you wanted the archives to be in an "archives" subdirectory of blog, you would set up the Local Archive Path and Archive URL like this: Local Archive Path: /home/cpanel_name/public_html/blog/archives Archive URL: http://www.put_your_domain_here.com/blog/archives/ The directory you set for Local Archive Path should also not be the same directory where your MT files are installed. Hope this helps...

Actually, it appears you don't have either of the two scripts needed. The code you posted is what you put into a template to display the referer stats, *after* you've installed the two scripts. The author did not make it easy to find the download you need. It is available on his "Latest Versions" page. The link you want to click on and download is the "MT-Referers" link. This should download a file named "mt-awstats.zip". Within mt-awstats.zip is two files - "mt-referers.pl" and "referers.pl". "mt-referers.pl" is the MT-Referers plugin file and should be installed in your "plugins" directory. "referers.pl" should be installed somewhere on the server (it should *not* be installed to your "plugins" directory), and this script is the one that needs to be set up as a cron job. The "referers.pl" script requires you to at least configure your domain in the script (at line 9). I'm not sure if the other settings can be left as they are or not. Both scripts require a number of perl modules to be installed on the server. I believe most of them will be installed already except one - YAML. If your server does not have the YAML perl module installed, you'll need to submit a ticket to the help desk and ask them to install it for you. Without it, you cannot run these scripts at all. I do not have the MT-Referers plugin installed, but I've downloaded it now and if you run into problems, I can look at it and try to help you figure out what's wrong.