thebadastronomer

LenK: thanks, I’ll try that out. Funny, that seems obvious now, but I haven’t found any mention of it in the WP support pages!

And yeah, that was me on the radio. It’s been a year or so since I was on C2C, so I’m glad they invited me back. It was fun!

The button is on every page of my blog. Specifically, look on this page:

https://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/18/google-moon/

At the top, you will see the Digg This button. If you click it, it goes to Digg, but the page listed at Digg is not the Google Moon blog entry! It’s for some link farm site or something, bizleading.com.

My page is getting lots of Diggs, but if it goes to the Digg front page, people won’t be able to click the link to go to my site! This person is basically stealing my traffic.

I think they are cutting and pasting the link in the Digg This button, and then changing the URL to point to their own site. If that is true, then there is nothing I can do to stop them, I think, unless I automatically submit each page as I post it. That’s sucky.

Nice, Rongo. Thanks for that; I added it myself. I doubt having the “preview” button is faster, since to preview you have to open new tab/window and open it. It’s only faster if you are saving multiple times and you don’t need to preview the post.

Update– there were roughly 30 posts, so I went ahead and edited them all. I’m clean now.

The newest one was hacked some weeks ago, so going through the access logs is out. I’ll keep an eye open to see if it happens again, but I do suspect this was from a hole in the 2.0.x security.

Heh. I turn it off when I test things like this. Good guess, though!

I used this code: https://photomatt.net/scripts/randomimage

I think you might be right, but if the code is called more than once, a different number should be generated (I called the routine several times on its own, and got a different image every time). That’s why I suspect the problem is the way the post.php file is called by the loop.

A<i>ha</i>! Perfect, thanks. I did look through the codex, but it’s hard to find info that specific if you don’t already know what you’re looking for going in.

Cool, thanks again!

Handy, yeah, that’s me. ?? I updated to SK2 just a little while ago, but maybe I’ll reinstall it. Actually, it’s letting through a lot of splogs, which is ticking me off anyway! Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, that would be a good idea. ??

We’re running php 4.3.11 on a linux box with Apache 1.3.33. MySQL is 4.1.11. I don’t think there are any special configs, and I am running a handful of plugins (spam karma, feedburner, countdown, and auto-moderate comments). These never caused any issues with WP 1.5.x.

Aha! That sounds perfect, moshu– and that link is in the article you mentioned, too, katie1. So thanks, that’s just what I need (I’ll add that I searched around, but missed that article).

-Phil

Problem solved. The files must be chmoded to 700 or 755, or else the server has security issues. Once I did that the problem went away.

Oops– I meant that WordPress is running on a Linux box. I’m accessing it through XP.

The blog displays correctly, but when I try to login or post I get the Internal Server Errors. My error log says I have the dreaded “premature end of script headers”. My permissions appear to be okay, so I have no clue what’s going on.

I am having trouble as well; I’m getting Internal Server Errors when I try to log in after upgrading (in post.php and wp-login.php) using IE on an XP box. I also get the same error when using Firefox! Any ideas?