Well, I believe I’ve fixed my comments problem [that they couldn't be left!] — although the fix only seems to work with new posts [like this one]. Please test this for me – leave me a comment! NOTE: the input box might be off the bottom of the screen
I believe the problem was caused by my IIS setup *not* recognizing index.php as a valid index-page-type.
For example, if you were to click Comments link for this post, you’ll see something like this:
http://www.peetm.com/blog/?p=9#respond
Note that the ‘path’ doesn’t include a page name — the page that parameter ?p=9#respond should be passed to. I manually entered this link as
http://www.peetm.com/blog/index.php?p=9#respond and everything seemed to work — well, things got further anyway!
So, how to have http://www.peetm.com/blog/ imply that index.php should be loaded and that ?p=9#respond should be passed to that page?
Valid default pages are specified as part of the IIS web-service. So, I had to access specify the names of valid index pages, and then restart the web-service service [not very hard when one spots the problem!]. Anyway – hopefully that’s fixed it!
No doubt there’ll be a few more. Still, I’m learning more and more everytime they do!
Ξ September 29th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Mumble |
It seems like it was ‘Stephen Fry Night’ on BBC 2 yesterday.
We had ‘Who Do You Think You Are’, then the ‘Slug Balancer’, courtesy of Black Adder, something called ‘Guilty’, ‘Room 101’, and finally an episode of ‘QI’. It was great.
I don’t think there’s any aspect of Fry that I don’t like – in fact, that I don’t think is pretty damn fantastic! He’s someone who I *really* wish I knew – I think we’d share a fair bit of common-ground. I actually fantasise about being able to just chat to him!
Actually, BBC 4 had a Stephen Fry night recently, on 8th September [which passed me by sadly], but part of that is being re-broadcast tonight on BBC2.
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Comedian, actor, director, writer, presenter – need we go on? This one-off special celebrates the 50th birthday of the multi-talented Stephen Fry.
He’s just 3 days older than me … perhaps he’ll have some good advice for dealing with being 50!
Fun Stephen Fry stuff:
Wikipedia Trivia including:
“Fry has lent his voice to an alarm clock where he reprises his role of Jeeves to gently wake the owner.” – I want one [pity it looks a bit crap though]! Try the various sample of wake-up messages!
Ξ September 29th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Mumble |
I *must* stop sodding about, I must stop sodding about, …
But, I have fixed my Blog Roll problems, and, as part of my sodding about, I’ve now incorporated the top 5 BBC Technology news items. I love php!
Ξ September 28th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Mumble |
So, WordPress 2.3 is just out, and, when I just upgraded, it seems to have shagged my installation! Typical, I have WP installed for a day or two, a new version arrives and everything goes tits up – lol! Don’t you just love software. It was also typical that I didn’t backup my database [well, it did only have one thing in it!]
The only reason I upgraded in the first place was that the 2.2 version wasn’t working quite right under IIS – try adding a comment to this post and you’ll see what the problem is.
Oh well, if I can be asked, I’ll have a go at fixing this [a 'permalink problem' I think], or move the installation across to a Linux box and apache. btw, it’s not the webserver, it’s not having .htaccess that’s causing problems. 3rd option … just wait for someone else to come up with a fix!
Oh – and another thing – my ‘Blog Roll’ is screwed for the same reason [template incompatibility] – so that’s the end of that for now.
Ξ September 27th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Mumble |
Having just installed WordPress, this is my first post.
I installed WordPress because my good friend Brian Clegg asked me if I blog.
I have done ‘the b word’ from time to time, e.g., I used to have a LiveJournal, and I used to post some stuff on GeeksWithBlogs. However, I gave up doing that sort of thing a while back. Possibly because I had nothing of interest to say [or can I be THAT busy?]
WordPress is, um, interesting: the software seems pretty damn good, but some of the themes, widgets, templates and what have you leave a little to be desired. Possibly it’s me though – not really knowing just yet how best to edit them and play with their settings etc. However, it’s not all bad – I found PSPad to help me! Still, that just means I’ll waste more time playing with that now!
I like the theme I’m using at the moment – reminds me of Oxford, Wolfson College, and in particular, the view one gets when wandering down the river path from Wolfson, and into The Parks/science-area [one of the very best reasons to choose Wolfson IMHO].
Sadly, Wolfson’s a bit ‘wrecked’ for me right now [personal reasons] – and I stay away from it more or less all of the time. Still, I’ll return and feel comfortable there one day I hope.
