Re: [pyblosxom-users] Getting comments working

[Ryan B. <pyb...@ry...>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Steve Clark wrote:

> I've just been trying it again and it's at least partly working. With
> vi**ra-test-123 as the name I get this:
> 
> "Empty response from server."
> 
> but at least it is not saved. In my error.log I see
> 
> "Rejecting comment"

ok. does your hosting provider allow arbitrary outbound connections? more 
likely, is DNS on your hosting provider configured correctly? the akismet 
plugin needs to connect to (and resolve) rest.akismet.com over HTTP. if you 
have a shell account, you can check and see:

heaven:~/src/google3> telnet rest.akismet.com 80 Trying 66.135.44.140... 
Connected to rest.akismet.com (66.135.44.140). Escape character is '^]'.
^]

telnet> Connection closed.
heaven:~>


> I can't seem to get a pyblosxom log file to appear, but I'm not sure how much
> more that would help.

this is probably the apache user issue again. as a short-term fix, you can make 
your pyblosxom log's directory world-writable. (ugh, i know.)


> I'll see if any real spams appear. Is there a way to monitor how many have
> been rejected? I have friends running Wordpress and one has a counter of spam

the log, once you have it set up.


> What we also lack if a way to flag comments as spam to Akismet manually.

fortunately, the original package for this plugin does provide a script for 
that. it's just not included in the contributed plugins pack. see:

http://mako.cc/projects/pyblosxom/akismet_comments-README.html

speaking of which, i didn't do any of the development work on this plugin, i 
just packaged it in the contrib pack. mako, blake, if either of you are 
reading, feel free to chime in!

-Ryan

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