DWD Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 A week ago my trackback was working perfectly. This morning somone tried to do a trackback with me and when they got the below error message. I get it now whenever I click on "trackback" anywhere on my site. I have changed nothing between the time it was working and now when it is not...so I'm inclined to think the server I'm on at TCH was tweaked (but that is a total guess on my part). Can anyone help? Here is the error message I get: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@danzfamily.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.danzfamily.com Port 80 Quote
DWD Posted February 2, 2005 Author Posted February 2, 2005 I found that I was getting this error: "[2005-02-01 18:59:04]: error: file has no execute permission: (/home/danzfam/public_html/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi)" I also discovered that the permission to my "mt-tb.cgi" file are set to "0". Was this done by TCH in response to recent spamming? Is it safe to reset the permission on this file and to what should they be set? Quote
DWD Posted February 2, 2005 Author Posted February 2, 2005 OK...so I checked the MT installation instructions and it said that all cgi scripts should be set to 755. So, I tried to change the permission using cPanel but no matter what I tried (and I have successfully changed permission using cPanel before) nothing worked. It kept saying "permission denied" when trying to change the permissions from 0 to 755. What am I missing here? Quote
TCH-Andy Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 Hi, A number of changes are being made as we maintain server stability due to the recent blog spamming. Please bear with us at the present time, whilst we work to ensure good reliability for all. We will update eveyone when a final solution is in place. Quote
Funkalicious Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 Don't feel bad, DWD. Spammers hit the Expression Engine blogs yesterday. I deleted 100+ trackback spams from my domain alone and many people got more than that. It's a sad situation this week. Quote
annie Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 There was an outbreak of MT trackback spams from the Bulgarians yesterday. I'm sure TCH did a server wide adjustment when they discovered it. Quote
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