Testing testing..
I'm testing out a program I just downloaded. It's called Zempt. It allows you to post to MT without even opening your browser. It also allows you to edit posts that have been made (ANY post, not just ones made with this program). Very easy to set up, once I told it where my site was, it grabbed everything it needed to: categories, blogs (I have two, remember? the images one and the main one), and whatever else it needed (not quite sure, this is still the first 10 minutes of using the program, I gotta explore it a bit).
I've also added a new plugin to MT. It shows when a post was last updated. If, and only if, a post has been updated, it will displayed "updated on $time" below the "posted at $time by $author". Very cool.
Oh, one REALLY cool thing that Zempt allows for, is saving of entries. So I can save an entry and finish it later, or if I want to start writing something (a poem?) I can save it and load it up later and proofread it or something. Very cool indeed.
So, yea, that's pretty much all.
It works!
It actually works! The artwork page now calls the javascript file that is outputted by MT. Each image is now an entry in a new MT weblog thingy. And they have comments too! Awesome! I only have three images up right now, just to test how it worked. I'll fill the rest in later, gotta go to my cousin's birthday party (the same one who wants the Trans Am).
This is awesome.
Wooooohooooo!!!
There is no cheer big enough or loud enough to demonstrate how I feel.
After several e-mails back and forth with the Technolojik (our host) support guy, MovableType is working again! It's so awesome! Took me only 10 minutes at most to get all of my manual updates into MT and about 1 minute to rebuild the entire site (normally takes a bit longer, but I'm not complaining). This is awesome! It also means that comments are back, even for the updates that came while MT was down. So, go ahead, comment. I'm in a such a good mood right now! =P
To whom it may concern
To whom it may concern,
I am a co-owner of trashfolder.org, I am known as Satoshi. Our server went down about a week and a half ago, and the excuse we were given was "our harddrive crashed." OK, that's acceptable, happens to everyone. But then, we had no backups, and you're reply to this was "we don't keep backups." OK... Using an old backup that we had made (a month old, maybe), we got the site in working order again, only to find out that MovableType, our content managing system, didn't work. Why it didn't work, we didn't know. That is, until we carefully looked at the error message it was giving. It couldn't find two perl scripts. DB_File.pm and DBM.pm. Now, it worked perfectly before the crash, so that means these two perl scripts did exist on the server before it crashed. My question is, why don't these files still exist on the server? Why are they, all of a sudden, missing in action? Your reply, "oh, MovableType isn't compatible with cPanel." Excuse me, but it has never been compatible, and yet it DID work! Why was this? Because those perl scripts existed. Dioji and SniperX0, the other co-owners, have moved to another content managing system, called Pivot. Pivot isn't compatible with cPanel (I'm assuming that because it's not in the Fantastico options, neither was MovableType), but Pivot works perfectly. Just like MovableType, before the crash.
I'm not asking you guys to make MovableType to work again, because I can do that, given I have the required files (which did exist, so they should be back on the server). I'm telling (not asking) you guys to restore these files, DB_File.pm, DBM.pm, and any other perl scripts that were lost in the crash. As your customer, I expect you to restore the server to working order. "But the server IS working!" you say. I can't use MovableType because the server is missing some files, that is not working. Those files should have gone back up with everything else when the server was restored. "Oh, but MovableType isn't compatible with cPanel." It doesn't have to be, as long as the server has the required files (which you have, apparently, because they were on the server not too long ago) it doesn't matter. cPanel is NOT what the server runs on. The server runs on Linux. Just like my computer runs on Microsoft Windows. Just because cPanel is the admin software on the server, that doesn't mean that it IS the server. I run AOL Instant Messenger on my computer. Microsoft doesn't want me to do that, because it's not their instant messenging program. Microsoft doesn't want me running GAIM because it's a Linux program that has been ported to Windows. Microsoft doesn't want me to run OpenOffice because it's not Microsoft Office. Each and everyone of those programs works perfectly on Microsoft Windows. Microsoft can say whatever they want about incompatibility, but it won't change a thing, they still run, and are completely compatible. MovableType is compatible with Linux, that's all that matters. cPanel is just the admin frontend. Nothing more. I'm telling you, those perl files belong on this server, just as they were before the server crashed. If they do not get replaced, you're looking at losing another customer. "Oh, but you're only one of the three that own the domain" you say? We can switch providers. We have before. If the other two co-owners refuse to leave with me, it'll cost them more money, and they'll probably leave too. Think about it. Do you want to lose a customer just because you're too lazy to restore the server to how it was before it crashed? I'm not talking about all of the files we uploaded to the server, I'm just talking about the background stuff, the perl scripts, that kind of stuff.
Sincereley,
Satoshi
Gah!
OK, until MT works properly, I've opened up a new forum section on our forums. Just sign up and post, no activation required. But, please, use the same names you've been using in my comments, i need to know who you people are. Check 'em out, http://forums.trashfolder.org. It feels weird not having comments.. If you're going to post comments on entries there, make the title of the topic the same as the title of the entry you're commenting on. Thanks. Go there, please, post, that means you.