Ping me… baby…
Tuesday June 17, 2003 – 10:44 pmI just uploaded a new config file for MT, I hope I didn’t break anything. I’d been using the same mt.cfg file since the beginning, but the most recent one has a new switch that I wanted to implement. It isn’t included in the update-only bundle I normally install, so I had to go grab the full-install version for comparison. The switch I’m talking about is ‘GenerateTrackBackRSS’… you see, whenever I get a trackback ping (which has only happened three times… I’m not exactly Miss Popularity in the blogging world!) a little .xml file gets stored in the root of my archive directory. It’s supposed to be used to generate an RSS feed of trackbacks, should you wish to do so. But with only three trackbacks in the whole damn blog, why would I ever create a feed for it? The .xml files were just cluttering my pretty archive folder so I turned off the feature altogether. You can still send TB pings exactly as before; the only difference is that these useless (to me) little files won’t be generated.
I hope somebody pings me soon so I can make sure it worked, but I’m not holding my breath. ;-)







June 18th, 2003 at 10:17 am
Edith, I just tried to TrackBack to this entry, and your server timed out.
June 18th, 2003 at 10:52 am
It worked though! I really appreciate it, I was anxious to make sure I didn’t fuck it up. I think the timeout thing is just Movable Type’s way of playing nice and not waiting too long to do its thing. It happens to me all the time when I do my pings, and I’ve never had one fail to show up on the other end despite the supposed timeout.