Need To Know Host For Xmlrpc Importing To My Site.

[drremer]

At NewsisFree, I am setting up an xmlrpc transfer of news to my web site's blogger API. It is asking for the host but gives no definition of what it is asking for, and ISP, DNS, or my website (it asks for that in another field).

 

Would anyone know what it is I need to fill in for the HOST field to activate their xmlrpc transfers to my website?

 

Many thanks.

 

David

[TweezerMan]

Hi David - Welcome to the TCH forums!

 

From what I can tell, the feature you want to use requires that you have a blogging application installed on your site that supports XML-RPC. I don't know what blogging app you have installed (or if you have one installed at all).

 

'Host' is the domain where your blogging app is installed (the domain you use to access its administrative functions), which can be different than the domain of your published blog (example: www.my-TCH-domain.com).

 

Hope this helps...

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums David

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, David.

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums. Hope you found the answer you were looking for.

[drremer]

Hi gang, really appreciate the welcome. Thanks.

 

I have resolved the host problem - a pure hit and miss prospect since there are no help files on NewsisFree. But, now I have a TotalChoiceHosting problem.

 

When I go to post via xmlrpc, I get the following error:

 

    *  http://www.poliwatch.org/News: There was an error when posting to that blog

      Error: (5)

 

Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:43:29 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html

 

 

(none)

195.134.143.169

/cgi-bin/

poliwatch.org

PHP XMLRPC 1.0

403

 

 

So the question now is why and how do I resolve it? Thank you all for the warm welcome and if any of you have a suggestion regarding this, I sure could use the pointer.

 

Yes, David, I have Movable Type publishing software installed and functional, so this

forbidden

error message appears to indicate the server expects some kind of approval before allowing Newisfree to post to my Movable Type software. Feeling kinda dumb, this is the first time I have ever set up anything on a server and it has been a steep learning curve, for sure. Obviously, I have much further to go.

 

Thanks in advance.

[TweezerMan]

You need to configure NewsIsFree to post to MT's mt-xmlrpc.cgi script. According to the NewsIsFree FAQ, these are the paramenter to set up XML-RPC:

 

* Name: the name of the blog

 

* URL: link to the blog's main page

 

* Blog ID: This should be the numeric ID of your blog in the MT admin interface. Hover over the blog's title on the main MT admin page (mt.cgi) and look for the 'blog_id' parameter in the URL if you do not know the blog ID number.

 

* host: the domain name where MT is installed (example: www.my-TCH-domain.com)

 

* port: 80

 

* path: the URL path to MT's mt-xmlrpc.cgi script (example: /cgi-bin/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi).

 

* username and password: A valid author name and password that can be used to log into MT.

 

That should get you a little closer.

[drremer]

David, thanks. I have all of that correctly in place - just a note, the Newsisfree refuses any www. or http preceding the domain name in the host field. Hence, I discovered poliwatch.org is all that it was looking for.

 

However, your reply contains something that lead to the answer. You said:

 

"* path: the URL path to MT's mt-xmlrpc.cgi script (example: /cgi-bin/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi)."

 

Bingo! I had entered just /cgi-bin/ and NOT /cgi-bin/xmlrpc.cgi .

 

entering the filename got me a success message. Which means your advice was immensely successful, and I thank you so very much. This is the first time I have asked someone for assistance which produced a positive result and I am happy as an ostrich in gopher land. I have spent a week setting this up and losing enormous amounts of sleep, and now, I can relax, it all works. Thanks very much David.

 

When I am rested, I will write up a tutorial for installing MT here. Tutorials are something I am very good at according to newbies.

[TweezerMan]

David, thanks. I have all of that correctly in place - just a note, the Newsisfree refuses any www. or http preceding the domain name in the host field. Hence, I discovered poliwatch.org is all that it was looking for.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I knew the 'http://' wasn't supposed to be there, but not allowing the 'www' sounds like it's just being picky to me.

 

entering the filename got me a success message. Which means your advice was immensely successful, and I thank you so very much. This is the first time I have asked someone for assistance which produced a positive result and I am happy as an ostrich in gopher land.  I have spent a week setting this up and losing enormous amounts of sleep, and now, I can relax, it all works. Thanks very much David.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm glad to have helped, and you're more than welcome! I'm sorry about the sleep you lost, but at least it's working now.

 

When I am rested, I will write up a tutorial for installing MT here. Tutorials are something I am very good at according to newbies.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As the resident MT guru, I recently updated TCH's tutorial for installing MT. Before you spend a lot of time writing your own tutorial, you might want to take a look at what we have there and see how it compares with what you would write.

[drremer]

Thanks for the tip on the tutorial. I will check it.

 

I didn't mind the loss of sleep too much because I learned so very much from the process. I know PC's very well and have worked on them and with them since the 1980's. But, servers are a pretty much a whole new learning experience for me. If there is anything I enjoy more than my family, it is learning something new. My only regret was not taking the time to enter these forums a couple days ago. I had transferred my site to two other hosting companies in the last week prior to choosing TotalChoice. Each of the others had either poor documentation or incompatible Perl libraries. I am glad to have found TotalChoice.

 

I have used my month's allocation of bandwidth in just these last few days. Am correct in assuming TotalChoice will simply bill me for additional increments used for the rest of the month?

 

Thanks, David.

[TweezerMan]

I have used my month's allocation of bandwidth in just these last few days. Am correct in assuming TotalChoice will simply bill me for additional increments used for the rest of the month?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I do not believe this is correct. This is what the FAQ says:

What happens if I exceed my allocated bandwidth?

You will receive an automatic e-mail message warning you that you have reached 80% of your contracted limit. This should give you plenty of time to contact TCH and purchase more bandwidth. Once you have exceeded your limit, your account is suspended for the rest of the current month.

You should purchase additional bandwidth *before* you reach your limit, otherwise, your site will be suspended.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the Family David

 

and your new home!

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family! (well you already know that )

We love to help

[drremer]

Thank you Don and David. I have a few dozen questions, but, first some sleep, and then maybe one a day will be a fair pace for taking on the new resources available here at TotalChoiceHosting.