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Hi! I'm running s9y 0.7.1 on scytale.de, but I can't trackback my own entries. The (localized) error message is:

Trackback failed: Die automatisch erkannte Trackback-URI gleicht nicht der angegebenen URI. Translated back to English this means something like "Trackback failed: the automatically recognized Trackback URI doesn't resemble the specified URI."

Since I'm trackbacking my own entry, this is definitely a s9y problem. And I wonder if the rest of the world can trackback me at all. What could be the problem here?

Do you really use the same URL you specified for the 'baseURL' directive?

Remember thtat http://scytale.de is NOT the same as http://www.scytale.de

If you link to the last URL, but your serendipity listens for the first URL, it will not recognize the trackback URL.

Regards,
Garvin

I think the problem is that in the link you use "_" instead of "-" so the URIs won't match...

Regards,
Garvin

Hm, yeah, I've mixed something up. I used the wonders of Apache's ServerAlias directive to make scytale.de and www.scytale.de identically and forgot which one was "the right one". I've now used a RewriteRule to let www.scytale.de redirect to scytale.de. Should work better now. And a quick test shows: Trackback works now.

As for the "_" and "-" problem: is it possible that s9y changed this from underscores to dashes in one of the last versions? Because that link came directly from Google, so the page must have been named with underscores.

Thanks for the help, this forum's speed is awesome!

Yes, the underscores have changed from older versions to dashes now; the old way however still works, but is deprecated.

Happy that it works for you now!

Regards,
Garvin