Markjuh

Yesterday and today I’ve been trying to get this prototype online at TextDrive.

Once you know how to install it, it’s quite simple. But there are some pitfalls. First thing I ran into was that I couldn’t get Apache properly configured. But it turned out I had to disable *.fngtps.textdriven.com or otherwise blog.fngtps.textdriven.com wouldn't work. Then it worked just fine, but just with CGI, which is slow. But I couldn’t get FastCGI to work properly. Someone was kind enough to tell me that there were some problems with the combination of Apache2 and FastCGI on TextDrive. Still have to switch to lighttpd and use Apache2 as a proxy. At least so far it works.

Next obstacle was MySQL… It doesn’t complain when you make tables with the InnoDB engine, but as soon as you try to insert values into the table, it returns an error (#1030 - Got error -1 from storage engine). It took me hours of searching on Google and trying things to figure out that just switching to MyISAM fixed the problem.

Then once it was online, I disabled the signup-functionality of the login generator I used, imported the blog entries I had been typing in a text-file.

Then I found out my Atom feeds were containing quite a few errors, so I found a feed validator and the The Atom Syndication Format 0.3, which helped me correct the mistakes I had ignorantly made.

Only annoying thing left was that I had no real titles for each post, so I took some time to read what I had written before and come up with a title. :)