October 2008 Archives

I used to use the blosxom weblog package to maintain my website, but over time I grew tired of it, and wanted something a little different. Additionally, I was having trouble with comment spam and wanted a way to let visitors help me police the spam. I decided on a wiki, and began using Oddmuse.

I am not actively maintaining my blosxom software any more, and was recently contacted by some developers who are. My plugins are now being hosted by the sourceforge development effort. Hopefully everything will get moved over and be more accessible and more up-to-date.

In any case, for now you can still access most of my blosxom software at my old site:

http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/BlosxomPlugins

Here is a list of the plugins I have released to the public:

• Antispam Plugin
• Autolink Plugin
• Blacklist Plugin
• Blosxcss Plugin
• Blosxom Anacron Plugin
• BlosxomDebug
• Emptymessage Plugin
• EntriesCache Plugin
• Find Plugin
• Hide Plugin
• Iconset Plugin
• Imagegallery Plugin
• Karma Plugin
• Login Plugin
• Menu Plugin
• Recentwritebacks Plugin
• Redirect Plugin
• RelatedFiles Plugin
• Seewritebacks Plugin
• Writebackplus Plugin
• Zlocaldepth Plugin

Here are some of the tricks I have figured out so far with Movable Type:

1. I needed to set the group id bit on the cgi scripts so they could write to the directories. This may or may not be a security issue.

2. http://www.library.yale.edu/wsg/docs/permissions/sgid.htm

3. I had to use /mt-static (no trailing slash) to identify where the mt-static directory would be.

4. I need to figure out exactly how to lock things down with htaccess for better security.