Weird Mt Archived Comments Problem

[CHUD]

I'm getting a weird error with my comments. Most of them come up just fine, but some cause the following error: The requested URL /scgi-bin/mt-antispam-comments.cgi was not found on this server. I know it has something to do with my having changed the name of mt-comments.cgi at one point.

 

Backstory: A few months back I renamed mt-comments.cgi to mt-antispam-comments.cgi. Everything worked fine after that. Last week I a) moved my entire site here to TCH (loving it so far) and b ) upgraded to MT 3.15 at the same time. (I know, I know: begging for trouble doing it simultaneously.) I'm using the default name of mt-comments.cgi now. My site is working okay here at the new location and with the new MT version, except for some of the comments.

 

As I said, most of the comments load up just fine, but some of them give the mti-antispam-comments.cgi was not found on the server error. Comments accessed through my new category archive entries consistenly give the error, as well as random older entries with no pattern I can see.

 

I've checked mt.cfg, all my templates, my style sheet, everything I can think of for references to the old name and everything's clean. I've rebuilt my site several times. Nothing helps and now I'm stumped.

 

Suggestions, anyone?

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the Family chud

 

and your new home!

 

I am sure the MT crowd will be along to help you,

hang in there.

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family!

We love to help

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family and forums Chud.

 

As Don said, the MT crowd should be along to help soon.

[borfast]

Welcome, Chud

 

I'm not an MT user, so there's not much I can help you with but as Bruce and Don said, someone from our MT crowd will certainly be able to help you

[TweezerMan]

The URLs to pages where the comments both do and do not work would be helpful.

[CHUD]

The URLs to pages where the comments both do and do not work would be helpful.

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Yes, I guess that would help, huh? The main page is at www.deadpan.net/pie. If you select any of the category archives in the sidebar, you'll see the error if you try to read the comments on the archived entries.

 

I've think I've narrowed it down to the hard-coded link I put in the sidebar to the category archive files. I hand-coded it directly to cat-motorcycles.html, for example, but I don't think that file is being dynamically rendered by MT. I don't know where MT puts the "real" archive index page, and I'm doing probably the category links wrong anyway.

[TCH-RobertM]

Welcome to the Forums CHUD,

[TCH-Bruce]

Chud, I was able to view comments on all your archive pages just fine but only after viewing comments from your main page first.

 

Very strange indeed.

[TweezerMan]

Note: Question was cross posted to MT Forums.

 

As Mark Paschal noted on the MT Forums, the way MT generates the URLs for category archive pages changed when you upgraded to MT 3.15. The hard-coded links in your sidebar no longer point at the current location where MT is building your archive pages.

 

Your hard-coded link for the Motorcycles category points here (where the comments links do not work):

>http://www.deadpan.net/pie/archives/cat_motorcycles.html

...but MT is actually building the Motorcycles category archive page here (where the comments links do work):

>http://www.deadpan.net/pie/archives/motorcycles/index.html

The first question you need to answer is: What URL do you want the category archive pages to show up at? Depending on how you answer, you will need to either fix the links in your sidebar, or change the Archive File Template for your Category Archives in Weblog Config | Archive Files.

[CHUD]

Whoops, hold the phone, I figured it out. I copied my old html files over here when I made the move and my index was pointing to the *old* category index files. MT 3.15 handles them differently and now that I'm linking to the *new* category index files it's working just fine.

 

But thanks for the help and the welcomes!