I’ve shut down comments (I think) temporarily while I attempt an upgrade from MT-4.01 to MT-4.1, in the modest hope that it will straighten out some of the problems I’ve been having with timeouts. Hopefully not for long.
[A few minutes later]
OK, I’ve updated. Let’s see if we’re still having problems.
[Update a few minutes later]
Nope, still hanging up.
I’m not the only one having issues with Movable Type:
I have succeeded in loading Style Contest templates into my style browser, and have applied them, and been informed I have successfully applied them and republished the site, and they do not show up. In fact it managed to destroy the page entirely, putting all the columns at the bottom of the page. Time to rip it up and start from scratch.
Don’t email me until I send up flares. I need to figure this out myself.
Good luck with that, James.
I’m not the only one having issues with Movable Type:
I have succeeded in loading Style Contest templates into my style browser, and have applied them, and been informed I have successfully applied them and republished the site, and they do not show up. In fact it managed to destroy the page entirely, putting all the columns at the bottom of the page. Time to rip it up and start from scratch.
Don’t email me until I send up flares. I need to figure this out myself.
Good luck with that, James.
I’m not the only one having issues with Movable Type:
I have succeeded in loading Style Contest templates into my style browser, and have applied them, and been informed I have successfully applied them and republished the site, and they do not show up. In fact it managed to destroy the page entirely, putting all the columns at the bottom of the page. Time to rip it up and start from scratch.
Don’t email me until I send up flares. I need to figure this out myself.
Good luck with that, James.
OK, I’m slowly getting things back to normal. I still have to fix the templates on my individual entry sheets, and there are some problems with style sheets, as you can see by the flaky typefaces. The biggest problem remains comments, which still aren’t working as advertised. I’ve got some questions up on the MT fora, but no useful response yet. I also have a problem with the software hanging when I publish a post (it just times out and gives me a 500). Fortunately, it seems to do what it’s supposed to do before that happens, but it’s a PITA. I’m hoping that some MT type can tell me how to run a debugger to figure out where and what the problem is. The real problem is that it also means that it times out when submitting a comment, so if anyone tries to do that, they’ll get frustrated, and perhaps end up doing it multiple times. So I’m going to have to disable them for now.
Still working problems and not much time for blogging, though I’m working on a SS2 piece for another venue, and I’ll probably be blogging the debate tonight at Pajamas, since it’s just around the corner from me, over at FAU.
I’m going to keep this post at the top for a while, as a warning that the site is still under construction. Don’t let any bytes fall on your head.
I know, comments are still broken (though I think you may be able to comment if you have a TypePad account). I’m going over to Naples for the weekend, though, so no solution until Monday (which is also the Challenger anniversary).
Not just me, you also. I may be attempting a software upgrade tonight or tomorrow, and I’ll have to shut down access to the site temporarily while I do it. So if you can’t get in, that will be why. It’s nothing personal. Not even for the trolls. I’ll be keeping this post at the top for a while, so until it happens, look below for new ones.
[Wednesday update]
OK, even though (or maybe I should say particularly because) no one can comment yet, I’m going to start blogging again. I just can’t get the monkey off my back. New posts will continue to appear below until the issue is resolved, or I give up on it and ban everyone permanently. And again, if there is an MT doctor in the house, please email me.
Let’s see if the comments work on this one…
Apparently, there is no clean path to get from the old version to the new version with the comments template intact. The new version of MT doesn’t allow pop-up comments–you have to go to the individual entry page. So I decided that I’d just start with a fresh set of templates that work in the new software, and gradually restore the look of the page. At least we’ll be functional. Now that I have a clean setup, the first thing I’ll do is get comments working properly again, then I’ll start reprettifying the site.
This is a test post…
[Update an hour or so later]
OK, I’m in MT 4.0, but having problems. Still no comments showing up, and I can see that they’ve changed their template comment tags again (no mention about this in the upgrade instructions), so I’m glad that I didn’t waste my time trying to fix it in 3.35. More seriously, the script is crashing when I publish with no helpful messages, though it does seem to publish, so I’m going to have to dig through the server logs. I’m not very comfortable moving forward until I understand/fix that problem. If there are any MT gurus out there, I’d appreciate an email.
[Late morning update]
OK, I’ve got a semi-serious problem. When it updated my data bases, it made me an administrator for the blog, for not for the MT installation itself (even though I was previously). Comments are disabled at the system level, and I don’t have permission to go in and change this. Does anyone know how to hack the installation on the server to change my MT permissions? I’m thinking that maybe if I go in and modify the database directly, but I’ll probably have to delve pretty deeply into the MT docs (or even look at the code) to figure out how to do this.
[Update early afternoon]
Well, I made myself a superuser again by poking around in the data base, and I updated the global permissions. Supposedly now, comments are allowed. But the template continues to refuse to display them. The MT documentation is decidedly unhelpful. I’ll have to try to find some working examples and see what I’m doing wrong. So comments will still be unavailable, for now. But I’m going to resume blogging, because there’s lots of news out there.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Well, at least I found a relevant manual page, with an example. Hopefully this will get comments on the way to wellville.