LisaJill

She's a year old and was retired because she had problems birthing her first litter; so rather than put her through that, when they had cats that gave birth easily; they retired her and I was lucky enough to get her. She came from kentucky, which is less far than Odin came, but still a trek. =)

I just wanted to stop in and say hi and introduce everyone to the reason that my posts may now be littered with kitty-speak; as well as the reason for much of my recent absence. That is, other than studying constantly for finals. Yuck. So, with no further adieu, I introduce to you.... *drum roll* Malificent. She arrived 8 days ago and has been taking up much of my time and truly appreciates the warmth of the powerbook as she sits upon the keyboard. =) One final Monday, then she gets all of my attention. I'm sure she'll be offering more assistance on the forums in future; especially since she's taking up a fair bit of my hosting space....

You have to register for typekey then login, and apparently (I've not done this) it'll show up as one of the listed piecces of software you can use. Apparently that's not going to last (at least, from what I saw of one of shelley's posts on the MT forum) so make sure you keep a tar'd copy of that around in case you need it in the future. Also, note - I haven't read it, nor downloaded it - but apparently the license in 2.661 also reflects the NEW licensing scheme, not the old; unlike the old copies of 2.661. So a newly downloaded copy would adhere to the new pricing format. Again, I haven't checked this but that seems to be the consesus on the MT forums. If that is the case, you're in trouble. =)

No idea what you've tried, but you should just create a new folder in public_html (say called, example) and create a new weblog from mt.cgi and point the output (weblog config) to that new folder. That's the easiest way. =)

It's fast and looks like the cert is working. all coming from smtih college network in MA.

yes, you would need to pay if you upgraded. At that setup you'd need the 100$ setup. For that price you could get a much better system. *winks*

I am! I'm sorry, but this is the last week of finals/papers AND I got a new cat (bad timing, unavoidable) and I haven't had time to breathe much less go through and add the ones since Thanksgiving. On top of th Tat, we are working on implementing a new backend for the family pages database that will avoid this entire problem once and for all. Yay! So, please be patient, they will be added soon. There may be some strange happenings on those pages over the next few days while we get the new system up too, but we'll keep those to a minimum. Thank you.

My pleasure, always. =)

There were some issues with some comment spamming on MT weblogs, and so there were some serverside modifications made until those could be addressed permanently. This error is a consequence of those. If you submit a ticket to the Help Desk and let them know exactly what you're seeing then they can get it sorted for you. =)

No, on a non-reseller account, you can have as many parked domains as you want - but they have to point to the ROOT of your site (public_html) NOT a subfolder/subdomain. On a reseller you can have howerver many domains you want, pointing wherever. =) Acceptable Use Policy =)

On a non-reseller account, you can only have domains parked (pointing to the root of the same site). On a reseller account - you are limited only by your bandwidth, hdd space, and imagination. (specially, in regards to domains/web sites hosted, obviously you're still restricted by the AUP etc. =) ) You won't be charged more, except for the obvious cost of owning more than 1 domain name. =)

It's been that ever since I moved to TCH, so I'm not really sure. But I'm happy it's working now! =)

1) yes - you would need to change the domain to POINT to tch, but it needn't be transferred. You would do the changing of pointing with whomever hosts the domain. 2) only on a reseller account; not on a standard shared hosting account. =)

The ImageMagck path is /usr/local/bin, and I used Gallery for many months with IM on our servers, so it should work. =)

ImageMagick yes - /usr/local/bin As for the directory, just create a directory called temp inside your site somewhere and tell it where, is what I would guess.

The restrictions are honor-based, not code based. You can point the publishing wherever you want, and if all weblogs are used for the same "weblog" (as just a different section, say) then it is within the licensing.

redirect permanent /index.html http://www.siteurl.com/content/index.html should do it =)

*grins* like I said, I think that's temporary - but I'm betting the techs would like to know who/how much it's effecting. So you may want to submit the ticket just as info if you get a chance. =)

There were some changes made to combat some MT comment spam, which, as I understand it, was just an interim solution to keep servers running. You can submit a ticket to hte Help Desk to have it looked at though, please include as many details as possible. =)

I'm saying they already have. That method of combating spam has been around for at least a year, they've had plenty of time to work out how to get around it. Indeed, if I remember correctly, some malicious guys worked out a way around it to perform DDOS attacks about 11 months ago. =)

It takes their scripts about 15 seconds (depending on load time of your site) to find that a script has been renamed and what the new name is. =)

SixApart has a very basic free license, but the real version starts at $70. It's not open source, nor is it free. Anyway, the GPL'd software items have addressed these issues, or are addressing them, and have at least recognized that they are issues. *winks* I ran MT for a long time and did much support on their forums. This was prior to v3.0 (I switched during the beta, over massive disillusionment, another post eh?) but unfortunately, the issues have remained the same, and just as unaddressed as ever. I personally think, that at the cost of hosting here at TCH, the cost-benefit analysis doesn't stack up favorably to doing this. Even just creating the script would be a pain in the y'know'what, and then keeping it up to date with MT releases? yikes. =) And we get a LOT of new customers constantly (a good thing, for sure!), so this wouldn't be minimal issue after the first running, it's an ongoing general load increase. I think it would be better to stick all those MT people on their own cluster of servers. An all out MT hosting package - but that almost sounds vengeful.

Certainly they do, but those things effect server specific items, and do not make direct changes to people's installed scripts. Anyway, I added even more arguments against and as we can clearly see, I've convinced myself. I'm good at that, you see? *winks*

Oh, and I'm not sure if you understand how MT works - but for a script like that to work it would have to make those modifications and then rebuild the site. Rebuilding is processor intensive (and part of why these comment spams take down servers, comments cause a rebuild) - and so the script itself would require a lot of processor for itself and for the processes it would spawn. I think that this is no-mans land. The burden should not lay on TCH for this, but on SixApart for a comprehensive solution within their package. (My post count is flying up, since I think in gaps!)

To add to that - as far as a script that automatically makes these modifications - that raises all sorts of ethical and moral issues that I don't feel TCH should be getting anywhere near. I sure don't want TCH doing anything that modifiies what *I* run. I imagine that most people would agree. I'd rather take the chance of suspension, to be completely honest. TCH is my host, not my parent. =)