Dammit.
Comments and TrackBack pings are currently disabled at the server level back online for all sites I host (www.michaelhanscom.com, www.hanscomfamily.com, www.geekmuffin.com*). As I’ve done this at the server level, this is not reflected in the sites themselves: they all still look like they accept comments, but they won’t work.
I hope to be able to get them turned back on soon.
This may or may not be realistic. Much as I’d hate to have to turn them off permanently, unless I can find an effective block against the attacks that continue to cripple my server, it’s starting to look like a definite possibility.
This sucks.
Update: Okay, it’s all back up and running. One new software tweak, and another rename to the scripts.
I think I need to figure out a shell script that will rename the comment and trackback scripts, update the mt.cfg file with the new info, and then rebuild the sites on a weekly basis. Which wouldn’t be fun, but I really am running out of ideas short of entirely disabling comments and trackbacks or moving to another weblogging system, neither of which are very high on my list of things to do.
* Actually, www.geekmuffin.com will be ‘broken’ until a full rebuild is done. Unfortunately, as I don’t have rebuild rights for Kirsten’s site, she’ll need to do that on her own when she gets a moment. :)
“Breathe” by Depeche Mode from the album Exciter (2001, 5:17).