BlogEngine.NET

New Post: Login alternative

nigelnh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:00:15 GMT

Have recently downloaded the folioelement theme from

http://www.themes4blogs.com/

and am having difficulty with the login page. Is there a way to set the login to open in a new page or in a lightbox. The people at themes4blogs do not respond to my queries and there comments are so full of spam anyway. Appreciate any help with this. Thanks

New Post: Cannot login using IE8. Firefox is OK.

BillFugina — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:36:02 GMT

I have tried on several different computers and several different operating systems. IE7 and IE8 either return a totally blank page or a 404 message. Firefox never has a problem.

I grabbed the latest sourcecode as of yesterday, recompiled, deleted everthing but App_Data on the server and uploaded the new version. It is now running on version 1.5.1.27. The results are still the same.

My differences from stock code are as follows:

Extensions
- CopyCodeToClipboard.cs
- seopack.cs
Themes
- GrayShadow
- ProfessionalLight

I have tried disabling the extensions and changing the theme. Neither made any difference.

Thanks for your help.

-bill

New Post: Cannot change password in Users tab in Control Panel

GayLyn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:13:57 GMT

Hi Lee,

Rather than on "Create New User" screen, check two items down on the Administration panel--the last item--to find "Change Password".

Cheers,

-GayLyn

Created Issue: Editing profiles throws error with Country [10895]

lukiller — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:36 GMT

Logged as an administrator, create a new user, goto to 'Profiles' and switch to the user recently created. It throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception in 'ddlCountry'. This is because the values of the dropdownlist where loaded using lower case, and now it tries to select a value in upper case.

I solved this by setting the SelectedValue property to lower case.

File: "admin/Pages/Profiles.aspx.cs"

Method: "SetDefaultCountry()"

I changed this line:
"ddlCountry.SelectedValue = Request.UserLanguages[0].Substring(3);"

to the following:
"ddlCountry.SelectedValue = Request.UserLanguages[0].Substring(3).ToLowerInvariant();"

I am using version 1.5 and "es-AR" culture.

New Post: Blacklist for spam IPs

rtur — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:33:41 GMT

It is a perfect candidate for custom filter - new feature in the BE comment management. I'll check this out, it might make sense to add this to commentor meanwhile. Thanks for bringing this up.

New Post: Cannot change password in Users tab in Control Panel

lzoumas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:46 GMT

I am trying to change my password in the control panel and when I click edit next to the Admin User the only think I can change is the email address. The username and password are not editable.

Any thought?

Thanks in advance,

Lee

New Post: Cannot login using IE8. Firefox is OK.

GayLyn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:45 GMT

Hi Bill & Ben,

This sounds similar to some problems I was having with a 1.5.0.7 blog (also at DiscountASP.net) a couple of months ago. It happened multiple times after I edited a text widget. It happened once with an XML backend and once with a SQL Svr backend. It seemed to lose it when trying to post credentials to login.aspx. It seemed as though it couldn't login because it couldn't find the login page, though it was posting to itself. One time I got lucky and found that I was already logged in on another machine. I think what probably solved the problem was restarting the application. I was using IE7 and Vista.

Betcha I can reproduce the problem. <g> When everything has been running well for a few hours (a rare state at my desk), I'll reproduce the error.

-GayLyn

New Post: Blacklist for spam IPs

andreadottor — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:18:30 GMT

In this site http://www.stopforumspam.com/ there is a list of spammer IPs.
I have checked the last my spam's comments, and are in this list.

But the problem is that the list are very long, and I think that the better way is developing an extension that use the web service of "Stop Forum Spam".

Commented Issue: Curbing Spam Posts [10883]

BenAmada — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:14:17 GMT

We recieve a great deal of "spam" comments so we moderate our comments. Is there a way to view all unapproved comments so we don't have "real" comments slip through the cracks?

Thank you.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: BenAmada **

Definitely check out this add-in (named Commentor). It will show you all your comments for all posts in one place.
http://rtur.net/blog/post/2009/02/16/Commentor-e28093-new-version.aspx

The latest build of BE (available on the Source Code tab above) now has similar functionality available in Commentor, built into BE. The next release of BE will include this.

New Post: Cannot login using IE8. Firefox is OK.

BenAmada — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:09:04 GMT

If possible, try logging into the same blog on a different computer with IE8 (Windows 7 or not Windows 7) -- to see if it's a specific problem with just your particular IE installation.

It could be some add-on in IE. Or a security tool blocking the content. I'm just guessing.

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and can't reproduce this problem.

New Post: language

BenAmada — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:01:51 GMT

It's hard to say. I'm guessing your existing site may be setting an explicit culture, rather than letting the culture be automatically detected. For example, in the BE web.config file, there's this setting:

Does your existing site have this <globalization> element in its web.config file? If so, what is it? If it's set to a specific culture, you might want to try setting it to "auto" like how BE does it.

New Post: Using BlogEngine.net without roles.

BenAmada — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:55:27 GMT

As you register each person, just put them in the existing Editors role. That will allow them to post blog entries.

New Post: Linking to the blog fails with error message

acidjazz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:54:23 GMT

Thanks GayLyn on the Permalink idea. The archive displays because I changed the custom 404 in web.config to load the archive.aspx instead of the error page since the page always fails on the first load. This way the user is greeted with the archive page instead of the oops page. Not optimal but, an improvement.

New Post: Blacklist for spam IPs

jkaiser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:52:31 GMT

Does anyone know of a blacklist for known Spammer IPs? I now have a few dozen IPs blocked in commentor, and it would be nice to integrate it into some service.

The reason I ask is because these spammers are manually posting to the blog with comments that seem relevant, however they link back to "cheapmeds.com" and the author is "cheapmeds.com" (obvious spam).

New Post: Cannot login using IE8. Firefox is OK.

BillFugina — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:48:09 GMT

When I try to login I get to the login page and I'm able to enter my name and password. After I press the login button, the returned page is absolutely blank. Well, actually, the HTML for the returned page is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

So, it might as well be blank.

I'm using WIndows 7 x64. I get the same results in IE8 x64 and in IE8 x32. Turining "Compatibilty View" and off makes no difference.

On IE7 running on Windows XP running in a virtual machine, I get a 404 error instead of the blank page.

FireFox has absolutely no trouble under any circumstances..

The blog is using BlogEngine.NET 1.5.0.7 and is hosted at DiscountASP.net.

New Post: Homepage takes very long to show with Arthemia theme

aladin11 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:44:49 GMT

I am trying to work around with 3 lines of code that cause the speed issue. I try to disable these 3 lines of code, and the homepage works fine. But then I can't control the headline anymore. We are testing now, so my site's still in Intranet.

New Post: Linking to the blog fails with error message

GayLyn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:19:39 GMT

Hi acidjazz,

FWIW, both of your links loaded fine for me (using IE 8) on the first try. It seems odd that it loads the Archive page as a default page, but it loads w/out error.

BTW, if it were me, and I was providing a link to go directly to the "Pediatric Options for Compounding" post, I'd use the "permalink" link which is at the bottom of the post rather than the "SEO Friendly" link that you get at the top of the post. If you're putting the link into a page, you can make the link read "Pediatric Options for Compounding" but set the "href" attribute to the longer, uglier, but more reliable permalink.

-GayLyn

New Post: Linking to the blog fails with error message

acidjazz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:29:01 GMT

The Website is on a shared host and the webhosting company will not change the Trust Level for the application. Am I out of luck?

New Post: Linking to the blog fails with error message

acidjazz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:17:07 GMT

Found this in another thread, going to try it:

"Yes, I did turn customErrors off and then saw some gibberish on every first load. It looked like a memory dump.

Anyhow, the evil was that I didnt set the .NET Trust Level to High but instead it was set to Medium which I believe caused the failed first loads. As soon as I set it to High, it worked fine."

New Post: Linking to the blog fails with error message

acidjazz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:46 GMT

Hi,

When I create links to my blog posts from my main website I regularly receive one of two error messages (see below):

If I try the link a second time it works from the same browser session it works. What could be going wrong? Here are example links that fail:

http://pavilioncompounding.com/Blog/BlogEngine/post/Pediatric-Options-for-Compounding.aspx

http://pavilioncompounding.com/Blog/BlogEngine/

ERROR MESSAGES:

Ooops! I can't find the page you're looking for

This one's down to me! Please accept my apologies for this - I'll see to it that the developer responsible for this broken link is given 20 lashes (but only after he or she has fixed this problem).

You can also try to search for the page you were looking for:

Ooops! I can't find the page you're looking for

You were incorrectly referred to this page by: localhost

I suggest you try one of the links below: