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Internet, Miscellaneous, Technology
Comments restored… for now
November 19th, 2007 (1 year, 1 month ago) by Jeff | Permalink | 2 Core Dumps

Follow up from the last post: Comments should be working again, although not in a fashion that I’d prefer. I had to completely disable Admin-SSL, thus login and login cookies are no longer secure. If you logged in while it was active, you’ll likely need to log in again before you can post, even if you check the “remember me” box. I’m still looking into why it doesn’t work. There’s a known limitation that shared SSL setups will fail to recognize logins in insecure mode, but they say nothing about dedicated setups like mine, which I would think would imply that it ought to work. Then again, I also had some mod_rewrite rules in place, but I experimented with removing those and so I don’t think they’re part of the problem.

I suppose this isn’t a big deal for you guys, since I doubt anyone will be all torn up over making sure their logins to some random guy’s blog are secure. It affects me more than anyone else, because I’d feel much safer if I could protect the admin parts of the site with a layer of encryption. Still, in places where I really need encryption I can verify it still works, so I guess the blog will just have to be open. :\
Internet, Miscellaneous, Technology
Comments broken, still working on it
November 19th, 2007 (1 year, 1 month ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Dump Core

It has come to my attention that comments don’t appear to be working here at the moment. I strongly suspect this is due to the Admin-SSL WordPress plugin that I’m currently using to secure parts of the blog. It seems to forget that you’re logged in when you’re not accessing a secure URL (i.e. you’re not in SSL mode). I’ve tried a few of the workarounds suggested, but none are working. I have a hunch on a few things to try, but that will have to wait until I have more dedicated time to work on it. (I’m currently watching the little guy by myself at the moment.) I’ll post an update when I think it’s been fixed.