LisaJill

Ya, but if I ever turn into slashdot I'll get a fully managed, dedicated server, no hesitation. *grins*

Got it, thank you Raul. =) I'm not slashdot; if I'm ever that successful I'll be very happy, though?

I've thrown this in my .htaccess file; I'm not noticing anything wrong, and the site is lightning fast at that. But I'm just worried about processor load etc. I don't have an incredibly busy site so maybe it's not a problem? Still, with it pounding the mysql database maybe between roundtripping and gzipping... Just want to make sure all is well.

Are there any considerations when using this to affect files that are built on the fly from mysql?

Congratulations, Mike. Thumbs Up

Textpattern has this ability somewhat coded, but it should be completed soon.

Mm, but that doesn't explain why the root absolute url's work in her css when the rewrite rules are not present but do not the second they're added in. The css file wouldn't be a blank referral hit I don't think? Still, I wonder if that'll fix it...

Mm, I'm not sure. I use absolute to the root url's in my css all the time, you can view it here: http://www.lisa-jill.com/textpattern/css.php?s=default You might try copying and pasting one of the image lines from that and see if it helps? Obviously replace the important bits. If you want to make the change to your css and push it live (broken temporarily) for a few minutes, let me know when you have and I'll have a look real fast. I have yahoo open at the moment if you want to use that, or I'll keep refreshing here. =)

You're confusing paths and URL's, not relative and absolute. You can have relative and absolute paths, same as URL's. An absolute URL starts with the full protocal of the url, ie: http://www.me.com/images/wickedwitch.jpg A relative URL would be /images/wickedwitch.jpg (relative to the ROOT) or images/wickwitch.jpg (relative to the current directory.) In the same vein, an absolute path is one that derives from the root, ie: /home/username/public_html/images/wickedwitch.jpg and a relative url derives from the current directory, ie images/wickedwitch.jpg; so it is a little different from the way the relative url's work. Have I confused you? =) (In all of my memory, I can not remember a single post that I did not edit within 20 seconds *sighs*)

It has to be a url, but absolute or relative will work; but I'm not sure why you'd password protect the directory? Is there a reason for that? Like you mentioned, it can cause some problems. You could just disable hotlinking and disable indexing to avoid image listings on that directory. People that really want the images can get them if they're visible on your site at all, though. =)

It's banned because it uses too many cpu resources. The explanation for the banned scripts is here. =)

I'm still, currently, visiting the MT forums. But I'm also taking part at the textpattern forums. My time at the MT forums may dwindle in the future, but we'll see. But I will always be here, never fear. Hey, that rhymed.

Greymatter is a banned script here at TCH. It's very old, no longer developed and a huge, huge, huge resouce. hog.

*grins* How could I forget? I answer about 200 MT questions a day, between here, the support forums, and random people IM'ing me due to tutorials and stuff. I shan't forget. =) I may even upgrade to MT 3 (I still have MT installed) when it becomes a reality, to stay in touch.

Create the new subdomain, change the stuff in MT and then rebuild it. You can then delete the old subdirectory and the blog directory. Should be fine. Make sure that the rebuilds work and the subdomain is propogated before you go deleting anything. =)

ASP is Microsoft Windows stuff. TCH runs Linux servers; so unfortunately no, ASP is not supported.

You can also enable spam assassin for serverside filtering. I have that enabled and k9 and I haven't had a spam email get through since I moved to TCH. My spam box (I check it with horde to make sure it doesn't catch good emails) gets about 160 emails per day..... So I'd say it's fairly effective.

I don't use wysiwyg anymore; but Dreamweaver was always very friendly and easy to use; and it's quite powerful. You may want to look into that.

Moved for organization. =) When I did this, I used Kudos. You can configure how long to show (I had 24 hours) and currently online, both in one very simple script. php required. =)

CGI Scripts can be run from any file under public_html. There *is* a cgi-bin; but as I learned while helping with MT, it is not necessary to use that; except as organization if desired. =)

I don't want to derail this thread too much.... but there are several issues that have made me change. Amongst them is the licensing; the fact that it's cgi (php is just so much nicer), and to be honest, the complete lack of communication (it was vaporware for months); I also think that the support community went drastically downhill), and typekey. So far you are really the only person that has said rebuilds were improved, out of several that said otherwise. Anyway, off my soapbox. Each person has a different reason for what software they use; it was high time I moved on, so I have. I'm happy you enjoy MT. =)

*grins* and to think, you never told me....

*rubs eyes* this may seem like a strange change of pace for me; but after 2 days of killing myself working on my site (rather than final essays and term papers!) I switched from MT to textpattern. (http://www.textpattern.com) I've got to say, it runs a heck of a lot faster, is a lot easier to maintain and is just.. nicer. Much better hierarchies, much easier maintenance. The whole thing makes me happy. Site is so simplified now... =) You may want to look into that. It's not as easy as something like blogger but it's very nice.

I'ts really easy to fake a from address. You could check the headers to see whats going on, and try reporting them to their ISP; but I'm not sure how far you would get. As far as being hacked, you probably were not. =)

The default templates do not show the category listing. Here's the code for it, place it on the template where you want it to appear: ><ul> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Category"> <li><a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a></li> </MTArchiveList> </ul> note, only categories with 1+ posts will show up. ... and you need to have category archiving enabled for that to work, or it'll throw an error. Does that help?