Comments on: Weird dream…about Microsoft

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

That’s very odd, Dave. But not a bad dream, I wouldn’t mind dreaming about seeing some new MS projects. Even if they weren’t real

BTW, the text on your comments page has reverted to being unreadable til you highlight it.

I don’t know what solution you used, but adding
height: 1%;
to the comments body section of the CSS works wonders for me.

by: LuxFX

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

How is this? I tried the height: 1% trick. But I can’t see a difference. It’s a rendering problem — and as soon as I switched to FireFox I never had a problem again! It’s some IE bug. But anyway — how does it look now?

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Seems to work. Yeah, I’ve started using IE more and more, just to see what I need to fix. The damn peek-a-boo bug… ech…

Sorry to keep on with this, but I really cannot figure out why it’s not letting me execute scripts with apache… am I missing something somewhere? What all do you have to do to enable cgi? Urgh…

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

By the way, I deleted IIS and I’m not looking back… after it seemed to make my wwwroot a zero byte folder that I can’t access no matter what I do, I don’t think I want to use it anymore…

by: LuxFX

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What operating system are you using again? XP Pro (as opposed to XP Home) has a lot of security settings. Make sure that the folder you have the scripts in has execute priveledges for everybody. As far as I know, Apache runs scripts as an anonymous user, not as the logged in OS users or the website visitor or anything like that. I’m not too sure what else to try….I’ve never had that kind of problem before.

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think I’ve finally figured something out!! The cgi-bin settings in the apache config said “options none” instead of “options exec-cgi”

Now I just have to reconfigure everything, since I had to move it to a different place, cross my fingers, maybe sacrifice a chicken, and see if it works.,

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It appears that little slip up, having to change “none” to “exec-cgi” was the problem. It’s up, have a look

by: LuxFX

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Looks good, but I couldn’t post a comment for some reason, not sure why. Also, you’ve got a few problems with your popup code. The onmouseover and onmouseout should be inside the SPAN tag, not outside of it (and the way you have it, they are actually even in their own paragraph tag). And forget that I used line breaks at all, that was just so the code would fit on the same page. It should look like this:

keyhidden text here

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah I fixed the popup. I checked the page source of your tutorial to see how it was coded in, I just had it the way it was spaced before… can’t figure out the comment thing at all.

by: Travis

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Got the comments working. Had to set everything to localhost:1349 instead of panickedthumb.no-ip.com

Something to do with the command line not getting passed right. So THEN I had to change the template so that when you clicked the link, you didn’t get “localhost:1349/whatever.cgi” because that would try to redirect to the users computer. For some reason you can set domain/location for home and archives, but not comments, within the MT configuration

But it works now, I had to recompile it so its the freakin default again. Bah. Oh well, it works.