LisaJill

HC, I edited my post fairly in depth and I think that those thoughts may respond, in part and of my own opinion, to your idea of a script to monitor things. =)

I think that those are all good ideas. The problem is that, by and large, the people that use MT have enough trouble installing it, much less installing the captcha hack and modifying the comments template to have to be preview first, and then finding their way around renaming a .cgi file and changing mt.cfg. Anyway, the renaming of the file is the easiest one to get around, they can just parse the page to find out the correct cgi script. I switched away from MT many months ago for a variety of reasons that didn't include spam But I find it disheartening that the producer (SixApart) of one of the main software packages for blogging hasn't already issued major updates that cover these problems, and quickly. More and more hosts are being forced to ban MT. I think that's a real shame. SixApart has treated this as a backburner issue for far too long, while other packages are quick on the uptake of adding anti-spam abilities inherent to the product. It's a shame that 6A didn't remain with just Mena and Ben, I think it did better then. \ [Edit] as an afterthought - TCH doesn't run scripts to see what scripts are being on the servers, at least not that I'm aware of! For TCH to police this type of after-software enhancement would bring an incredibly large burden on the support staff. They would have to monitor WHO has MT installed and WHAT those people did to MT! While I'm only a mod here and do NOT speak on behalf of TCH for this point, as well as not being a business strategist by any stretch of the imagination - I can't imagine such policing would provide a positive cost/profit scenario. Especially considering the incredibly low cost of the shared hosting plans, which are the ones taking the brunt of the abuse.

Are you running any sort of word censoring on that form? That's the first thing that jumps to mind....

It's a general password. PM one of the red or blue members that you see logged in, include your domain and ask for the password, and we'll send it to ya.

I am not sure what you mean by point a subdomain or redirector to the new site. But you can redirect people to your new domain as long as they go to the root. And yes, exactly. That would be the address - which you'd get in your welcome email. =)

As a sidenote - inside my college's network, I can't access many sites without the 'www' (such as petco.com and heck, smith.edu). The second I'm on a "normal" network I can leave out the 'www'. It's only inside this one. It's an anomoly that I am not totally sure I understand. Probably something with regexps and firewalls, and I find it incredibly annoying. But at the same time, I can access MY site with or without the 'www'. So I can say this is not a TCH thing (the above sites are not hosted with TCH), bur rather something that may be effected by the network someone is on, and it's something to bear in mind. =)

Yep, just a Help Desk ticket to get it sorted, no worries. =)

You should not set the paths to output to the cgi-bin. If you want them to output to say, the root of your site, then they shoudl be /home/cpanelname/public_html and the URL would be http://www.****** For the archives, you could set it to say /home/cpanelname/public_html/archives, then the URL would be http://www.******/archives. note: in the above, replace cpanelname with your username and ****** with your domain. =)

You can just delete the folder that contains those files. You may also want to make sure that the mysql database is also gone. You can do that in the mysql manager of the control panel. You can pm any red or blue member for the password to the family forum. Please include your domain name.

If you have a dynamic IP address you should use something like dyDNS or no-ip.com (which is what I use) and point the subdomain to the URL that you choose from that service, rather than the IP. With no-ip.com I just run a small piece of software that updates their information instantly so I never have to worry about either a number nor the number changing. =)

Somewhere in your folders you installed the MT cgi files and the MT static files. You need to upload the new ones to their respective, existing ones in your account. Commonly, the CGI files are in public_html/cgi-bin/mt and the static files are in public_html/mt-static. But you may have chosen a different setup initially.

You would need to submit a ticket to the Help Desk for this. =)

Be very careful with Mambo, that's been discussed on these forums before and it can quickly become very resource intensive.

Probably not. According to their FAQ: I didn't download it and their installation instructions don't appear on the site. But if they, themselves, say that you can't - it's probably a good bet ythat you can't. =)

I checked out the WackoWiki with WikiEdit link from there, it seemed about as close as you're going to get at the moment.

did you look here?

I thought you meant wysiwg control that are specific to the wiki environment. If you mean like dreamweaver type stuff. I don't know of any other than those external ones you integrate.

I don't know what features you need for WYSIWG. But MediaWiki (which I'm using to run ExpressionEngine Wiki) has wiki WYSIWG as well as an extension for firefox and a bookmarklet that both make posting very easy. It' the wiki they use for Wikipedia (which is why it was built, I believe) so it is pretty robust. =)

.asp only runs on Windows servers. We run all Linux servers. So no, ASP won't run on our servers. =)

There isn't an uninstaller. Most mac programs don't have one, you just drag the stuff to the trash. You have to clean up another folder as well but since there's no uninstaller - that's why. The programs I've run that had uninstallers cleaned that up for me if I got rid of 'em. =)

See - we agree after all. But yes, firefox doesn't have an option, so to properly uninstall ilt you need to find your profile stuff and delete away. =)

I don't at the moment but it'd take me about 30 seconds to get one up and running. I've run it before. Go ahead and ask. Moving to script forum. =)

*nods* I've seen several uninstallers that ask, during the uninstall process, if you want those files removed. And the uninstaller should certainly be able to read the prefs and know where things are set to go. One of my major pet peeves about Windows is having to go clean up the leftovers when an uninstall should at least give you option to remove all associated files.

Yea, and because windows is so cool, it leaves all that crap in place when uninstalling, so you have to resort to manual labor.

You'll have to submit another ticket to the Help Desk . The forum place is not for one on one help, and us mods - as nice as the rest of them are *winks* can't access the servers or your accounts. =)