Thanks Madman
I thought of various ways to do this. Witty, charming, overtly clever. In the end, I decided that being simple was all it required.
So here goes. Many, many thanks to MadMan, a.k.a the WebGuru, who inspite of his angry stares (believe me, it hurts, his angry stares) sorted out some commenting issues. And all in less than an hour.
Thanks MadMan.
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August 22nd, 2004 at 9:51 am
Testing comments again, and another chance to Thank Madman.
August 23rd, 2004 at 2:49 am
Uhhhh. I wonder, MadMan, if that comment you left for Ravages actually translates as ‘you’re welcome’???
August 23rd, 2004 at 2:50 am
Please-not-to-mind but could you remove the bug link please please please?
August 23rd, 2004 at 7:55 am
>>>(Please don’t say “revert back”. It’s redundant.)>>>
I didn’t say that! I said restored the backup. A world of difference in those two phrases.
August 23rd, 2004 at 8:19 am
You didn’t, but lots of people do.
August 23rd, 2004 at 8:52 am
Ouch! That Hurt!
August 23rd, 2004 at 12:27 pm
The actual fix took only 5 minutes. I took 55 minutes to decide whether I’d look into it today or tomorrow.
For the benefit of others who might be reading this, here’s the troubleshooting algorithm I used.
a) Ravages fucked up his MT comments by messing around in source code.
Potential solution: Revert to original code which should fix the problem.
(Please don’t say “revert back”. It’s redundant.)
b) Uh oh. Reverting to original code hasn’t fixed the problem. So it could be with some setting inside MT.
c) Check if comments are enabled for posts.
d) No, they are not. But enabling them doesn’t help. The mt-comments.cgi file, while clearly present, returns a 404 error.
e) Therefore, error is in some setting on the server. Check permissions on cgi file. Is it allowed to execute?
f) Aha, somebody has messed with that or not set permissions properly. Apply 755 permission to the file.
g) Test comments now. Yay, it works!
h) Think evil thoughts of how you’ll punch Ravages next time you see him.
August 25th, 2004 at 7:05 am
hey how abt in simple english ? I dint understand a thing what Madman said, and me too haunted my peepz selling DVDs and Viagra
August 26th, 2004 at 9:14 am
Anil: LOL!
All Madman said was I fucked up. And he fixed it. It took him about 20 words to say that