General Support

Custom Field for Asset Not Appearing

2012-02-09T14:05:31Z

I created a single-line text custom field for assets, which I expected would appear in the "Edit Asset" page, but it's not there. Where is it? Unless I'm missing something... is this a bug?

I created it within a website, and as I couldn't see it, I created another one for the whole system and, still, nothing.

I use MT Pro 5.12.

Publish queue cache coherence issue

2012-01-27T09:11:23Z

We have 5 templates. Four of them operate on a disjunct set of MT entries (and associated other objects) the 5th one iterates over all the other four's domain.

Publishing them statically from the UI works fine.
Running them one at a time from the publish-queue (orchestrated by run-periodic-tasks) succeeds.
Running the four disjunct ones via the queue also succeeds.
Running them together by the queue processor fails with various error messages in mt-ts-error.
Calling MT::rebuild_indexes() on all of them from within the same test script also fails.

My assumption is that the successive rebuild jobs share some resources stemming from using the package MT.pm in the same(!) Perl process. Perhaps in the MT registry, perhaps in some other Package level data construct. Upon successive runs within the same "context" some of the cached values are not correctly used when looking up or instantiating objects. Debugging the error messages revealed situations where an expected object was undef (not loaded?), a simple array was expected but an incompatible hash was returned, etc...

Running them statically is not an option as they take too much time to run. As a workaround I had to write a rudimentary run-periodic-tasks shell script bypassing MT's own to process and run them one at a time with each job running in a different Perl process. This solution saved the day but obviously I'd like to understand what could be wrong.

I have a feeling that the meta info layer may be corrupt, either for the summaries or the custom fields. If that is the case is there a utility method which I may use to go through all of the entries in question and have their meta data sanitized?

Any idea what else could be wrong?
Problem is on an MT 4.3 instance, mem-cached is not used.

thanks a lot,
Istvan

rebuild-pages error

2012-01-09T09:44:48Z

Hi,
rebuild-pages script work fine for small blogs.
but when a blog has more than 40+ entries, I got error

$ perl ./tools/rebuild-pages --user=**** --pass=***** --blog_id=28
rebuilding (my blog ...
Category built success.
Page built success.
Can't locate object method "AdminScript" via package "MT" at ./tools/rebuild-pages line 164.

thanks in advance.

Community Blog Registration Hijacked

2012-01-06T21:40:30Z

I have a community blog where the public can register to post entries and comment. I noticed I was getting several spam registrations per day. Username is 9 random lower case letters, email is from hotmail and always a URL from a french company. Obvious spam.

I have disabled comment registration and create entry. They were still appearing. I removed all the code from the site that had anything to do with registrations. I am still getting these registrations. Fortunately there are no permissions set. I also removed the general "add user" from the blog user list.

Any ideas how this might be happening? How to disable community for this Blog (have another private, protected blog also using the community addons.

Thanks,
Merv

PS: MT 4.35

verbose error messages

2011-12-21T00:42:23Z

Hi,

would be nice to have more verbose error messages sometimes.

For ex. while trying themes I got:

"Could not create cityscape-tokyo folder - Check that your 'themes'
folder is webserver-writable".

took some time to find out exactly wich themes folder was the subject.

So, hacked $MT_HOME/plugins/StyleCatcher/lib/StyleCatcher/CMS.pm:

233     if ( !$filemgr->mkpath($theme_path) ) {
234         my $error = $app->translate(
235             "Could not create [_1] folder - Check that your 'themes'
folder is webserver-writable: $theme_path.",
236             $basename
237         );
238         return $app->json_error($error);
239     }

(appending the path in question to the message)
This makes troubleshooting easy.

sebastian

Asset Uploading Don't upload

2011-12-21T00:28:28Z

Summary
Running 4.37 on a Dedicated Server
Issues:
1. Images aren't actually being uploaded even though MT is saying they are
2. Options are missing on the File Options dialog when uploading an asset

Details
All has been fine but just a couple of days ago 2 things happened.
1. When we upload an asset, on the File Options screen, we'd normally be able to set the alignment, Use thumbnail. link to full size, etc.. options. But now we only see NAME, DESCRIPTIONS, TAGS. How do we get them back?

Also, though no error appears and the activity logs show the files have been uploaded, they show up in the assets gallery as 0 bytes and no preview. They are also not on the file system where they are normally stored (I even search the entire server for it, just in case). We tried different images, different image types, etc.. none work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Error wont allow asset uploading.

2011-12-17T07:25:01Z

Hello,
Whenever I go to upload an asset, I am unable to as an error message appears. This happens both if I am writing an article and click on the 'Insert Image' link in the editor (using rich text) and if I use the sidebar to add New Asset.

The rror I encounter is the following,

Error cropping image: Cropping a 300x300 square at 90,0 failed: Exception 310: geometry does not contain image `/home/movableb/public_html/jjnova/bulletbill.gif'

I find this an odd error, considering that `/home/movableb/public_html/jjnova/bulletbill.gif' is showing up just fine on both the frontpage and the blog entry that it is embedded in. Yet, somehow, the image is keeping me from embedding anymore images in newer posts.

I can upload assets through the left sidebar, under the Assets function, but still unable to embed them as the previous mentioned error wont allow it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Adjacent individual archives no longer being rebuilt?

2011-10-20T06:48:59Z

Back in the 4.x days and earlier, whenever creating or updating a new entry, MT would also rebuild any adjacent individual entry archives, so that and links would be updated accordingly. Now, in 5.12, whenever I create a new entry on one of my blogs, the previous one doesn't get rebuilt, and as a result I have to manually rebuild it as well in order to get the next entry item.

The adjacent daily archive pages are getting rebuilt, at least, but the individual ones are not.

The strange thing is this is only affecting one of my sites; on another site (which is being served from the same MT dashboard) the adjacent individual archives ARE being rebuilt whenever an entry is added or rebuilt.

I can't figure out what would be causing this difference; I thought it might be because in the misbehaving site the EntryPrevious/EntryNext tags were being brought in as a template module instead of being directly in the template, but even putting them in directly didn't help.

Has anyone run into this issue, and are there any fixes? I couldn't find any settings for whether to rebuild adjacent archives, either on blogs or templates, and it's getting pretty frustrating.

Problems Importing an Export file

2011-10-04T18:51:39Z

Hello,
I'm in the process of transferring some movable type sites to our servers that we purchased. The initial setup process has been very time consuming setting everything up from backups. Now we'd like to update our copy of the websites that we have running on our server with the latest entries and comments vs asking for all new backups and starting from scratch again.

The vendor that we purchased the sites from has given us the export files we need. When I try importing these text files on my development version running locally on my machine I have no problems - very painless. But when we try this on our server that we are setting up as part of this migration process the import doesn't work.

The screen just says:
Importing Entries in Blog
Creating new users for each user found in the blog

At the bottom of the screen it says "All data imported successfully". But at no point do I see the names of the entries that its trying to import scroll across the screen. I even tried this not preserving the users and importing as admin but still had no luck, it just dies immediately. We are all running the same version of MT (4.36).

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or is there a place an error might get logged to point me in the right direction?

None format is converting angle brackets

2011-09-23T19:34:07Z

A new issue has cropped up for me. I created a new entry. As always I use a format of none. This entry, like my others has some html tags that I typed in. However unlike past entries, MT is converting the angle brackets around my html tags to the html ampersand codes. Older entries do not do this. I don't know how this started. There has probably been a minor upgrade a some point via Debian but not major version change.

domain showing folder list

2011-09-21T01:31:42Z

now when i visit to my domain i just see list of folders (Index of /) , script is working inside cgi-bin but its not good idea to show folders in domain,
which file i should keep in root directory so that it will work.

Problemas para crear post en mi blog

2011-09-19T13:56:30Z

Buen día. Soy el administrador de un blog en la pagina http://www.zonalibre.org. El nombre de mi blog es Senderos de Dios. Actualmente, presento problemas para crear post. al momento de querer crear uno el sistema de administración me arroja el siguiente mensaje: An error occurred: close Publish error: Publish error in template 'Entry': Error in tag: error in module Sidebar: Publish error in template 'Sidebar': Error in tag: Error in tag: Error in tag: error in widget Home Page Widgets Group: Publish error in template 'Home Page Widgets Group': Error in tag: name is required. Quisiera que pudieran ayudarme a solventar esta situacion. Esperando pronta respuesta a mi solicitud,me despido.

NIXON COLINA

How to extract all commenter's email address

2011-09-19T12:42:59Z

I would like to send a bulk email to all who have sent in comments on my blog.

Is there a way to extract or list this information so I can use it in this way?

Thanks!

Uploading Embedded Photos

2011-09-14T14:57:25Z

When uploading a photo the "Embedded" choice is no longer functioning. Countless attempts always result in the code for "Popup Image".

New User

2011-09-12T03:04:23Z

Hi there,

I'm currently "hunting" for a good Blog system for my own website. I am currently redesigning it with a new look and feel. I looked at some and tried others, but Movable Type looks more like what I'm after.

However, before I start going all mighty with the CSS and other things, my programming background is quite limited, therefore, I would like to ask, if is it possible or extremely hard to implement the MT blog into my own web page design?

To better illustrate what I mean, this is an image showing what I'm asking:

http://i53.tinypic.com/34t60yq.jpg

Can I insert the MT blog into the pink box?