Page not found - /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi

By Sarah on Jul 29, 2012 at 6:59 AM 4 Vote 0 Votes

Hello,
There is something wrong with my comments. When a user clicks 'preview' to view the comment prior to post (which is mandatory) they are taken to an error page which reads, 'Page not found - /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi'. I looked on the server and the mt-comments.cgi file appears to be there.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!
Sarah

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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Mihai Bocsaru | July 29, 2012 7:18 AM | Reply

Hi Sarah,

Can you supply me the URL where this issue occurs?

I would assume that when you post the comment there is no error message, but only when you preview.

Have you checked your "Comment Preview" system template?

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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Sarah | August 8, 2012 10:49 AM | Reply

Hi Mihai,

Thanks for your reply. The site is located at http://www.sharkforum.org/

I just checked the Comment Preview system template and it all looks good to me, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for either. There might be a very obvious error that I'm simply not recognizing. Are there any common errors that I should be looking for?

Thanks,
Sarah
Mihai Bocsaru | August 8, 2012 1:53 PM | Reply

Hi Sarah,

Good if you could send me access to that blog MT Admin (username and password) via email so that I could do some testing.

Thanks,
Mihai
Mihai Bocsaru | October 28, 2012 1:47 PM | Reply

Got your credentials to the MT Admin, Sarah!

There is no problem with the coding, but I suspect the following scenarios:

1) the commenting script file is renamed

you've renamed "mt-comments.cgi", but you've forgot to declare that change inside "mt-config.cgi" as say:

CommentScript new-mt-comments-file-name.cgi

or you did that, but you've forgot to rebuild your site files, or at least entries, pages and index templates.

2) your server disabled the commenting script file name

They could have removed it, renamed it, or set a 000 permission over it.

If they did this, maybe they did because they are having a slow server and spam bots were trying to inject a lot of spam on your commenting script, while you probably didn't have any antispam shield.

Thanks,
Mihai