Thank you a lot, Garvin.

Hey everyone,

I've moved my whole website (incl. database) from one server to another and now I'm faced with some php errors that I can't figure out, eg.:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/kunden/webs/mkaestne/marcus-kaestner.de/blog ...

I am very sorry. The mistake, in this case, was a stupid whitespace that happened to be in front of the Akismet key so it just wouldn't work.

Anyway, thanks for your support!

Cheers,

Marcus

Okiedo... there is a firewall on the server. What's the port, Akismet uses? Sadly, they do not mention that on their website.

Thanks for your help!

Marcus

Hey,

thanks for answering quickly.

I'm going to ask server admin if there's a firewall. Indeed, I have activated "Akismet" to prevent my blog from spam attacks.

If the server has a firewall, what can I do instead to get rid of spam?

Cheers,

Marcus

Hi,

my blog got under spam attack and thus I tried to prevent it by putting in some "sharper" anti spam configurations. But now, whenever someone wants to comment in my blog, he gets this error message instead (PEAR.php is in bundled-libs/ folder). Does anyone know how to deal with that? I changed ...