To follow up, it turns out my host has turned off cgi and php to comply with some federal law about spamming...

I emailed them to see what's up, so I'm eagerly awaiting a response...

Ugh..

mod_php or mod_cgi...

Where would I check those settngs?

Thanks for the reply!

So I went to my weblog today, and much to my surprise I found this:

http://www.houseofmah.com/main/

(check the URL to see)

Any suggestions? I'm pretty confused, I haven't made any changes to the code or anything.

Thanks in advance...

I see. Thanks again for the help!

Hi,


I've installed various versions of Serendipity (v.7 and v.8) and I have just started installation on v.9 for a site.

I am familiar with having to change the permissions on some directories so that they can be "writeable", but this error puzzled me. It says I need to change the permissions on ...

Thanks! CHMOD - I know that term. I made the changes, and it's all good....(for now)....

Thanks again, much appreciated!

Do you think you could clarify what I'm supposed to do with this code? I'm pretty new to this stuff, and I'm not really sure what to do. Thanks again...

Hi,



I had installed version 8 a few weeks ago with no problem. But when I tried to access the page today, I get this:

Fatal error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/home/mahctag/public_html/ramblings/templates_c'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /home ...

Thanks! That seems to work just fine. I still have no idea why the ping option takes so long, but this will work out ok.

I checked the HTML of the page that gives the "Sending XML-RPC ping to host ping.blo.gs..." message, but there is no error listed. I've waited a few minutes, but the message never changes.

I'm using Serendipity ver. 0.7.1

Thanks for the reply.

Pretty sure it's not a firewall thing. How would I check the sockets? I'm pretty new to this whole thing.

Ok, I have a question about the "Announce Entries" plugin. I have this plugin activated, and whenever I post an entry, I get this message:

"Sending XML-RPC ping to host ping.blo.gs..."

and it just sits there. Should it do that? Or should the message go away, or give me an "entries announced ...

Ned,


Thanks for your help with this. I finally got the sql issue figured out. Now I've got a new problem. Here's what happened:

Attemping to setup database...
Checking to see if the database is already in place. If you see a database query error here, ignore it... Done
Creating default database ...

Yes, the username is "serendip". Now, in the serendipity admin page, do I need to specify the username as just 'serendip' or do I need to add the prefix 'mahctag_serendip"?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the input. I created a new database and created a user for that database, but I'm getting this error now:

- Could not connect to database; check your settings.
The mySQL error was: Access denied for user: 'serendip@localhost' (Using password: YES)

I'm not sure what settings to check. I ...